Religion and Politics, (4 Volume Set)

The early twenty-first century has witnessed a global resurgence of religious activity and identification. In particular, numerous examples of the growing political influence of religion can be cited, not least in Europe, once thought to be an inexorably secularizing continent. In India, meanwhile, officially a secular state, the Bharatiya Janata Party has served in several coalition governments and, until 2004, was the leading party in government. In the USA, religion continues to have a major impact on both domestic politics and the country’s international relations. More obviously perhaps, in the Middle East, religion plays an enormous part in political life, both domestically and internationally, while the Roman Catholic Church has played a leading role in the turn to democracy in Spain, Poland, and several Latin American countries.

Volume I (‘The World Religions and Politics’) of this new four-volume collection from Routledge focuses on the major world religions and the roles they play in politics. Volume II (‘Religion and Governance’) brings together key work on: religion and secularization; religious fundamentalism; the relationship between church and state; religion and democracy; and religion and civil society. Volume III (‘Religion and International Relations’), meanwhile, assembles vital scholarship on religion and foreign policy, globalization, and terrorism. Finally, Volume IV collects work on ‘Religion, Development, and Security’ to examine religion and conflict; religion, gender, and politics; faith-based development aid; religion and science; and religion and human rights.

With a full index and a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, that places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Religion and Politics is an essential one-stop reference resource.

Volume I : The World Religions and Politics

Chapter 1 : Introduction : Powerful Medicine’, The Ambivalence of The Sacred
Chapter 2 : Political Religion : A Concept and its Critics - A Critical Survey’, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
Chapter 3 : Religious Violence and The Myth of Fundamentalism’, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
Chapter 4 : Buddhism and Politics, Handbook of Religion and Politics
Chapter 5 : Buddhism, Democracy and Identity in Thailand’, Democratization
Chapter 6 : Confucianism, from Above and Below, Handbook of Religion and Politics
Chapter 7 : Did Protestantism Create Democracy’, Democratization
Chapter 8 : Some Recent Developments in African Christianity’, African Affairs
Chapter 9 : Evangelical Protestantism and Democratization in Contemporary Latin America and Asia’, Democratization
Chapter 10 : Catholic and Muslim Politics in Comparative Perspective’, Taiwan Journal of Democracy
Chapter 11 : The Muslim Reaction to Pope Benedict XVI’s Regensburg Address’, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
Chapter 12 : Democracy and Hindu Nationalism’, Democratization
Chapter 13 : State and Religious Diversity : Reflections on Post-1947 India’, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
Chapter 14 : Post-Islamist Culture : A New Form of Mobilization?’, History of Religions
Chapter 15 : The Mythic Foundations of Radical Islam’, Orbis, Winter 2004
Chapter 16 : Islamic Militancy in East Africa’, Third World Quarterly
Chapter 17 : Islam and The Challenges of Modernity’, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs
Chapter 18 : Islam and The United States : Streams of Convergence, Strands of Divergence’, Third World Quarterly
Chapter 19 : A Revolt Against The West : Politicized Religion and The International Order - A Comparison of The Islamic Umma and The Sikh Qaum’, Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies
Chapter 20 : Judaism and The State, Handbook of Religion and Politics
Chapter 21 : Transnationalism and The New Religio-Politics : Reflections on a Jewish Orthodox Case’, Theory, Culture & Society

Volume II : Religion and Governance

Chapter 22 : Civil Religion in America’, Daedalus, Journal of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Chapter 23 : Making Sense of Religion in Political Life’, Annual Review of Political Science
Chapter 24 : Religion and The State, Handbook of Religion and Politics
Chapter 25 : Towards and Integrative Theory of Religion and Politics’, Method & Theory in The Study of Religion
Chapter 26 : Secularisation and Politics, Handbook of Religion and Politics
Chapter 27 : Do Democracies Have Separation of Religion and State?’, Canadian Journal of Political Science
Chapter 28 : Contemporary Evidence Regarding The Impact of State Regulation of Religion on Religious Participation and Belief’, Socio1ogy of Religion,
Chapter 29 : Religion and Nationalism : Understanding The Consequences of a Complex Relationship’, Ethnicities
Chapter 30 : Multiple Modernity, Nationalism and Religion : A Global Perspective’, Current Sociology
Chapter 31 : Globalization and Religious Nationalism : Self, Identity, and The Search for Ontological Security’, Political Psychology
Chapter 32 : Islam and Nationalism : Continuities and Contradictions’, Nations and Nationalism
Chapter 33 : The Governance of Islam in Europe : The Perils of Modelling’, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Chapter 34 : Studying Middle Eastern Societies : Imperatives and Modalities of Thinking Comparatively’, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
Chapter 35 : Authoritarianism and Islamic Movements in The Middle East : Research and Theory-Building in The Twenty-First Century’, International Studies Review
Chapter 36 : Islamism, Kemalism and The Future of Turkey’, Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions
Chapter 37 : Radical Islam and The Nation : The Relationship Between Religion and Nationalism in The Political Thought of Hassan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb’, History of Intellectual Culture
Chapter 38 : Islamic Mobilization : Social Movement Theory and The Egyptian Muslim BroTherhood’, The Sociological Quarterly
Chapter 39 : Getting Religion? The Puzzling Case of Islam and Civil War’, International Security

Volume III : Religion and International Relations

Chapter 40 : The Religious Roots of Modern International Relations’, World Politics
Chapter 41 : The Challenge of September 11 to Secularism in International Relations’, World Politics
Chapter 42 : The Political Authority of Secularism in International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations
Chapter 43 : Situating The "Secular"’ : Negotiating The Boundary between Religion and Politics’, International Political Sociology
Chapter 44 : Secularism and its Discontents’, Daedalus, Winter 2003
Chapter 45 : The Future of Political Islam : The Importance of External Variables’, International Affairs
Chapter 46 : Religion under Globalization’, Economic and Political Weekly
Chapter 47 : The Globalization of Informal Violence, Theories of World Politics, and The "Liberalism of Fear"’, Dialog-IO, Spring
Chapter 48 : Religion, Politics and International Relations : The Rise of Religion and The Fall of The Civilization Paradigm as Explanations for Intra-State Conflict’, Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Chapter 49 : Religion and (Inter-)national Politics : On The Heuristics of Identities, Structures and Agents’, Alternatives
Chapter 50 : Transnational Religious Actors and International Politics’, Third World Quarterly
Chapter 51 : The Catholic Church : An Underestimated and Necessary Actor in International Affairs’, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Winter/Spring 2008
Chapter 52 : Religion and Foreign Policy Making in The USA, India and Iran : Towards a Research Agenda’, Third World Quarterly
Chapter 53 : Iran’s Foreign Policy after September 11’, The Brown Journal of World Affairs
Chapter 54 : Ideology and Pragmatism in Iran’s Foreign Policy’, Middle East Journal
Chapter 55 : The Saudi Paradox’, Foreign Affairs
Chapter 56 : "There are no Rules" (George W : Bush) : International Order after September 11’, International Relations
Chapter 57 : The Chosen Nation : The Influence of Religion on US Foreign Policy’, Policy Brief
Chapter 58 : God is Not Neutral : Religion and US Foreign Policy after 9/11’, Orbis, Winter 2004
Chapter 59 : The Israeli Lobby and US Foreign Policy’, London Review of Books
Chapter 60 : Turkish Foreign Policy Since 2002 : Between a "Post-Islamist" Government and a Kemalist State’, International Affairs
Chapter 61 : Transnational Religion : Hindu and Muslim Movements’, Global Networks

Volume IV : Religion, Development, and Security

Chapter 62 : The Forgotten Factor : The Uneasy Relationship Between Religion and Development’, Social Compass
Chapter 63 : Agents of Transformation? Donors, Faith-Based Organisations and International Development’, Third World Quarterly
Chapter 64 : Introduction : The Emerging Alliance of World Religions and Ecology’, Daedalus
Chapter 65 : Changing The Climate of Christian Internationalism : Global Warming and Human Suffering’, The Brandywine Review of Faith & International Affairs
Chapter 66 : Gender, Faith and Development : Rethinking The Boundaries of Intersectionality’, Development Bulletin
Chapter 67 : Religion and Development Revisited : Comparing Islam and Christianity with Reference to The Case of Iran’, Journal of Developing Societies
Chapter 68 : Political Islam : Image and Reality’, World Policy Journal
Chapter 69 : Islam, Globalization, and Economic Performance in The Middle East’, International Economics Policy Briefs
Chapter 70 : Facing The Inequalities of Development : Some Lessons from Judaism and Christianity’, Development
Chapter 71 : Religion, European Secular Identities, and European Integration
Chapter 72 : The Religious Content of Ethnic Identities’, Sociology
Chapter 73 : Religion and Conflict’, The International Journal of Peace Studies
Chapter 74 : Religion as a Peace Tool’, Ethnopolitics
Chapter 75 : Divine Intervention : Regional Reconciliation through Faith’, Harvard International Review
Chapter 76 : Conflict Prevention : The Role of Religion is The Role of its Actors’, New Routes
Chapter 77 : Conflict, Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building : The Role of Religion in Mozambique, Nigeria and Cambodia’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
Chapter 78 : The Clash of Civilisations?’, Foreign Affairs
Chapter 79 : The True Clash of Civilizations’, Foreign Policy
Chapter 80 : Clash of Civilizations, or Realism and Liberalism Déjà Vu? Some Evidence’, Journal of Peace Research
Chapter 81 : Al-Qaeda : Ideology and Action’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Chapter 82 : Sovereignty Under Attack : The International Society Meets The Al Qaeda Network’, Review of International Studies
Chapter 83 : The al-Qa’ida Network and Weapons of Mass Destruction’, Middle East Review of International Affairs