Rethinking Religion and World Affairs (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Shah, Timothy Samuel; Toft, Monica Duffy; Stepan, Alfred

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. The essays in this volume seek to question and remedy the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship, grappling 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. Finally, the volume addresses the representation of religion in the expanding global media landscape, the unique place of religion in American foreign policy, and the dilemmas it presents. Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, Rethinking Religion and World Affairs is the first comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interconnections of religion and global politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199827985
• Artikelnr.: 38139112

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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