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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction and Theoretical Overview | |
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| A New Beginning? | |
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| Religion in the Premodern International System | |
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| The Post-Westphalian System and the Secularization of Global Politics | |
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| Modernization and Secularization | |
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| Critiques of Secularization | |
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| Perspectives on the Politics of Ethnicity and Religion | |
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| Taking Culture Seriously | |
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| Responses to Globalization | |
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| 9/11 and After | |
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| Understanding Religion: Definitions and Directions | |
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| Religion and Global Politics: A Survey | |
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| Religion and the Domestic Bases of State and Foreign Policy | |
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| The Roman Catholic Church | |
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| A Brief History of Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church | |
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| The Modernizing Church: Changes under Vatican II | |
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| The Church and the Vatican Today | |
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| Liberation Theology | |
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| A Diversity of Political Movements | |
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| Change, Continuity, and New Challenges | |
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| The Church under Benedict XVI | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Christianity and US Politics | |
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| The 'City upon a Hill': Competing Themes in US Politics | |
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| Religion in American Public Life: A Historic Perspective | |
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| The Twentieth Century and 'Social Christianity' | |
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| Christianity and the US 'Mission' in the World: The Cold War | |
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| Streams of Christian Activism | |
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| The Rise of the 'Religious Right' | |
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| Onward Christian Soldiers? | |
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| Seeds of a Middle Way | |
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| Other Religions and US Politics | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Judaism, Zionism, and Israeli Politics | |
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| A Brief History of Zionism | |
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| Dimensions of Zionism to 1948 | |
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| Political and Ethnic Divisions in the State of Israel | |
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| 'Greater Israel' | |
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| The Settler Movement and the Rise of Israeli Revisionism | |
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| The Rise of Shas | |
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| Religious Parties and Coalition Politics | |
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| The Wider Coalition: Christian Zionism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Political Islam and the State | |
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| Introduction to Islam | |
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| The Fusion of Islam and Politics: A Contentious Debate | |
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| The Medieval and Colonial Ages | |
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| The Birth of Modern Islamic Activism | |
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| Revolutions and Revivalism: Islamism to the 1980s | |
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| The Crucible of Radicalization: Afghanistan, bin Laden, and Militant Jihad | |
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| Islamism Today: Democrats and Demagogues | |
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| The Sunni-Shi'i Divide | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Religion and Politics in India | |
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| What is Hinduism? | |
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| Hinduism, Islam, and Indian Independence | |
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| The Rise of Hindu Nationalism | |
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| Sikh and Hindu Nationalist Movements in the 1980s | |
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| The Ayodhya Incident and the Rise of the BJP | |
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| Hindutva, Foreign Policy, and the Issue of Kashmir | |
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| Flashpoints and Pressures: The Continuing Problem of Interreligious Relations | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Buddhism and Politics | |
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| Buddhism's Rise and Eclipse in India | |
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| The Basic Tenets and Vehicles of Buddhism | |
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| Sri Lanka: Buddhism Betrayed? | |
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| Buddhism in East and Southeast Asia: Protest and Peace | |
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| Tibetan Nationalism: Unattainable Nirvana? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Religion and Global Order | |
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| Religion, Democracy, and Human Rights | |
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| Religion and the Expansion of Liberal Democracy | |
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| Human Rights and Constraints on Religious Freedom | |
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| Religions, Human Rights, and Democracy | |
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| Religion in International Human Rights | |
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| Religion and Human Rights in Practice | |
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| Religious Freedom and the Politics of Human Rights | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Religion and War | |
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| 'Religious' Wars of the Past | |
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| Religion and War in the Modem World | |
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| The Just War Tradition | |
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| The Tradition of War in Islam | |
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| Himsa and Ahimsa Traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism | |
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| Religion and Terrorism | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Religion and Conflict Resolution | |
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| Religious Resources for Conflict Resolution | |
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| Religious Activism in Support of Conflict Resolution | |
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| Religion as Interested Observer | |
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| Religion as Peacemaker | |
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| Religion as Protagonist | |
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| Religion as Peace | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Transnational Religion, Globalization, and Development | |
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| Religion and Globalization | |
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| The Influence of Transnational Organization: Global Religious Networks | |
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| Religion, the Media, and the Global Political Sphere | |
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| Migration, Religion, and Integration | |
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| Religion and Development | |
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| A Divided World? Notions of Division Rooted in Religion and Civilization | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Conclusion: Religion in a 'Secular' Age? | |
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| The Rise and Decline of the Secular State | |
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| A Secular Age? | |
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| Hostility or Hospitality? | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |