Michael D Driessen

Gebundenes Buch

The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue

Religious Change, Citizenship, and Solidarity in the Middle East

Beschreibung

In The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue, Michael D. Driessen examines the growth of state-sponsored interreligious dialogue initiatives in the Middle East and their use as a policy instrument for engaging with religious communities and ideas. Using a novel theoretical framework and drawing on five years of ethnographic fieldwork, Driessen explores both the history of interreligious dialogue and the evolution of theological approaches to religious pluralism in the traditions of Catholicism and Sunni Islam. Compelling and nuanced, this book illustrates how religion operates in contemporary global politics, offering important lessons about the development of alternative models of democracy, citizenship, and modernity.

Autor

Michael D. Driessen is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy, where he directs the MA program in International Affairs. He is also Director of the Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics. He received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has been a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar as well as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute. He is the author of Religion and Democratization, and his articles have appeared in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, and Democratization. Driessen also serves as an advisor for the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780197671672
• ISBN-10: 0197671675
• Artikelnr.: 67732449