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Rethinking Religion and World Affairs

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ISBN-10: 0199827990

ISBN-13: 9780199827992

Edition: 2012

Authors: Timothy Samuel Shah, Alfred Stepan, Monica Duffy Toft

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In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. Rethinking Religion and World Affairs seeks to question and remedy the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship. Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, this volume will form the first comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interconnections of religion and global politics.These essays grapple with puzzles, issues and questions concerning religion and world affairs in six major areas. Contributors critically revisit the "secularization thesis," which proclaimed the steady erosion of religion's public presence as…    
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List price: $41.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/29/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.29" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Timothy Samuel Shah is Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University.

Monica Duffy Toftis Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her current research examines the role of nationalism, religion, and rationality in relation to political violence. She is the author of The Geography of Ethnic Violence: Identity, Interests, and the Indivisibility of Territory(2003), Securing the Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars(2010), and Godrsquo;s Century(2011).

Contributors
Introduction
Religion and World Affairs: Blurring the Boundaries
Religion, Secularism, and Secularization
Why Religion? Why Now?
Rethinking Public Religions
The Politics of Secularism
Religion, Democracy, and Human Rights
Religion, Democracy, and the "Twin Tolerations"
How Should States Deal with Deep Religious Diversity? Can Anything Be Learned from the Indian Model of Secularism?
Rethinking Islam and Democracy
Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Human Rights
Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking
Religion, Terrorism, and Civil Wars
What Religion Offers for the Politics of Transitional Justice
Religion, Humanitarianism, and Civil Society
Where Is the Religion? Humanitarianism, Faith, and World Affairs
Faith, Gender, and International Affairs
Religion and Development
Interreligious Dialogue and International Relations
Religion and the Media
Islam and the Promenades of Global Media
Old Monks, New Media, and the Limits of Soulcraft
Religion and American Foreign Policy
God's Country?
Americas International Religious Freedom Policy
Navigating in the Fog: Improving U.S. Government Engagement with Religion
Appendix: Internet Resource Guide
Index