Rethinking Religion and World Affairs

Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, this volume offers the most comprehensive and accessible exploration to date of the major puzzles, issues, and questions surrounding the complex and increasingly visible role of religion in world affairs.

About the author

Timothy Samuel Shah is Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University; Alfed Stepan is 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

Summary

Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, this volume offers the most comprehensive and accessible exploration to date of the major puzzles, issues, and questions surrounding the complex and increasingly visible role of religion in world affairs.

Additional text

There is an increasing recognition across the social sciences that the dominance of an epiphenomenal approach to the study of religion in world affairs has produced inadequate research and scholarship. This volume speaks creatively to that lack, exploring the key themes that arise when discussing religion in international affairs, focusing its six sections thematically on secularization, human rights, conflict and peace-making, civil society, media, and foreign policy

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Samuel Shah, Timothy Samuel (EDT)/ Stepan Shah
• Assisted by: Timothy Samuel Shah (Editor), Shah Timothy Samuel (Editor), Alfred Stepan (Editor), Stepan Alfred (Editor), Monica Duffy Toft (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2012
• EAN: 9780199827978
• ISBN: 978-0-19-982797-8
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, International Relations, Political science & theory, Religion & politics, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Religion and Politics, Political science and theory, Peace studies & conflict resolution, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State