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Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
Edited by Timothy Samuel Shah, Alfred Stepan, and Monica Duffy Toft
336 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-982799-2
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Paperback
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22 March 2012
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- Most comprehensive study to date of religion and world affairs
- Includes essays by leading scholars, policy-makers, and analysts
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 an effect of modernization; explore the relationship between religion, democracy, and the juridico-political discourse of human rights; assess the role of religion in fomenting, ameliorating, and redressing violent conflict; and consider the value of religious beliefs, actors, and institutions to the delivery of humanitarian aid and the fostering of socio-economic development. Later chapters address the representation of religion in the expanding global media landscape, the unique place of religion in American foreign policy, and the dilemmas it presents.
Rethinking Religion and World Affairs will become an invaluable resource for professional and emerging scholars, journalists, policy makers,
diplomats, and others concerned in their personal or professional capacities with religion and international affairs.Readership: Students and scholars of political science, international affairs, sociology, history, religious studies; policymakers, journalists, diplomats, NGOs in development and peacebuilding
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Edited by Timothy Samuel Shah, Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, Alfred Stepan, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government, Columbia University, and Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Timothy Samuel Shah is the Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University; Alfred Stepan is the Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government, Columbia University; Monica Duffy
Toft is Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Contributors:
Nichole J. Allem, Syracuse University; Thomas Banchoff, Georgetown University; Michael Barnett, George Washington University; Frederick D. Barton, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Rajeev Bhargava, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies; Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Syracuse University; José Casanova, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Thomas F. Farr, Georgetown University; M. Christian Green, Emory University; Nicole Greenfield, Social Science Research Council; Shannon Hayden, Center for Strategic and International Studies;
Robert W. Hefner, Boston University; J. Bryan Hehir, Harvard University; Karin von Hippel, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University; Katherine Marshall, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Walter Russell Mead, Bard College; J. Daniel Philpott, University of Notre Dame; Timothy Samuel Shah, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Alfred Stepan, Columbia University; Monica Duffy Toft, Harvard University; Diane Winston, University of Southern California; John Witte, Jr., Emory University
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Contributors
Editors' Introduction: Religion and World Affairs: Blurring the Boundaries - Timothy Samuel Shah, Alfred Stepan, and Monica Duffy Toft
Part 1: Religion, Secularism, and Secularization
1. Why Religion? Why Now? - J. Bryan Hehir
2. Rethinking Public Religions - José Casanova
3. The Politics of Secularism - Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Part 2: Religion, Democracy, and Human Rights
4. Religion, Democracy, and the <"Twin Tolerations>": Reconciling Political Freedom and Religious Autonomy - Alfred Stepan
5. How Should States Deal with Deep Religious Diversity: Can Anything Be Learnt from the Indian Model of Secularism? - Rajeev Bhargava
6. Rethinking Islam and Democracy - Robert W. Hefner
7. Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Human Rights - John Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green
Part 3: Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking
8. Religion, Terrorism, and Civil Wars - Monica Duffy Toft
9. What Religion Contributes to the Politics of Transitional Justice - Daniel Philpott
Part 4: Religion, Humanitarianism, and Civil Society
10. Where Is the Religion? Humanitarianism, Faith, and World Affairs - Michael Barnett
11. Faith, Gender, and International Relations - Katherine Marshall
12. Religion and Development - Katherine Marshall
13. Interreligious Dialogue and International Relations - Thomas Banchoff
Part 5: Religion and the Media
14. Islam and the Promenades of Global Media - Mehrzad Boroujerdi and Nichole J. Allem
15. Old Monks, New Media, and the Limits of Soulcraft: A Case Study of Burma's 2007 Saffron Revolution - Diane Winston
Part 6: Religion and American Foreign Policy
16. God's Country? American Evangelicals and US Foreign Policy - Walter Russell Mead
17. America's International Religious Freedom Policy - Thomas F. Farr
18. Navigating in the Fog: Improving US Government Engagement with Religion - Frederick D. Barton, Shannon Hayden, and Karin von Hippel
Appendix: Internet Resource Guide - M. Christian Green with Nicole Greenfield
Index
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