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1 SUB Hamburg A/ RELIGION AND POLITICS Critical Concepts in Religious Studies Edited by Jeffrey Haynes Volume I The World Religions and Politics O Routledge ^ Taylor & Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK

2 VOLUME I THE WORLD RELIGIONS AND POLITICS Acknowledgements Chronological table of reprinted articles and chapters xv xix General introduction 1 1 Introduction: Powerful medicine 19 SCOTT APPLEBY 2 Political religion: A concept and its critics - a critical survey 42 EMILIO GENTILE 3 Religious violence and the myth of fundamentalism 59 MICHAEL BARKUN 4 Buddhism and politics 73 PETER FR1EDLANDER 5 Buddhism, democracy and identity in Thailand 91 DUNCAN MCCARGO 6 Confucianism, from above and below 107 MICHAEL D. BARR 7 Did Protestantism create democracy? 125 STEVE BRUCE 8 Some recent developments in African Christianity 142 PAUL G1FFORD vii

3 9 Evangelical Protestantism and democratization in contemporary Latin America and Asia 163 PAUL FRESTON 10 Catholic and Muslim politics in comparative perspective 183 JOSE CASANOVA 11 Cross currents: The Muslim reaction to Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg address 202 ANA BELEN SOAGE 12 Democracy and Hindu Nationalism 211 CHETAN BHATT 13 State and religious diversity: Reflections on post-1947 India 232 GURHARPAL SINGH 14 Post-Islamist culture: A new form of mobilization? 250 AMEL BOUBEKEUR 15 The mythic foundations of radical Islam 268 JOHN CALVERT 16 Islamic militancy in East Africa Islam and the challenges of modernity 300 KHALIL MOHAMED IBRAHIM 18 Islam and the United States: Streams of convergence, strands of divergence 308 ALI A. MAZRUI 19 A Revolt against the West: Politicized religion and the international order - a comparison of the Islamic Umma and the Sikh Qaum 339 GIORGIO SHANI 20 Judaism and the state 354 SHMUEL SANDLER V1U

4 21 Transnationalism and the new religio-politics: Reflections on a Jewish Orthodox case 371 JEREMY STOLOW VOLUME II RELIGION AND GOVERNANCE Acknowledgements vii 22 Civil religion in America 1 ROBERT N. BELLAH 23 Making sense of religion in political life 20 KENNETH D. WALD, ADAM L. SILVERMAN AND KEVIN S. FRIDY 24 Religion and the state 44 JOHN MADELEY 25 Towards an integrative theory of religion and politics 67 LUCIAN N. LEUSTEAN 26 Secularisation and politics 83 STEVE BRUCE 27 Do democracies have separation of religion and state? 99 JONATHAN FOX 28 Contemporary evidence regarding the impact of state regulation of religion on religious participation and belief 123 JONATHAN FOX AND EPHRAIM TABORY 29 Religion and nationalism: Understanding the consequences of a complex relationship 151 BARBARA-ANN J. RIEFFER 30 Multiple modernity, nationalism and religion: A global perspective 177 WILLFRIED SPOHN 31 Globalization and religious nationalism: Self, identity, and the search for ontological security 198 CATARINA KINNVALL IX

5 32 Islam and nationalism: Continuities and contradictions 226 SAMI ZUBAIDA 33 The governance of Islam in Europe: The perils of modelling 240 VEIT BADER 34 Studying Middle Eastern Societies: Imperative and modalities of thinking comparatively 257 ASEF BAY AT 35 Authoritarianism and Islamic movements in the Middle East: Research and theory-building in the twenty-first century 266 ODED HAKLAI 36 Islamism, Kemalism and the future of Turkey 290 JAMES G. MELLON 37 Radical Islam and the nation: The relationship between religion and nationalism in the political thought of Hassan al-banna and Sayyid Qutb 307 PAUL BRYKCZYNSKI 38 Islamic mobilization: Social movement theory and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood 328 Z. MUNSON 39 Getting religion? The puzzling case of Islam and civil war 355 MONICA DUFFY TOFT VOLUME III RELIGION AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Acknowledgements ix 40 The religious roots of modern international relations 1 DANIEL PHILPOTT 41 The challenge of September 11 to secularism in international relations 37 DANIEL PHILPOTT

6 42 The political authority of secularism in international relations 63 ELIZABETH SHAKMAN HURD 43 Situating the "secular": Negotiating the boundary between religion and politics 88 MAIA CARTER HALL WARD 44 Secularism and its discontents 108 NIKKI R. KEDDIE 45 The future of political Islam: The importance of external variables 127 MOHAMMED AYOOB 46 Religion under globalisation 138 P. RADHAKRISHNAN 47 The globalization of informal violence, theories of world politics, and the "liberalism of fear" 160 ROBERT O. KEOHANE 48 Religion, politics and international relations: The rise of religion and the fall of the civilization paradigm as explanations for intra-state conflict 175 JONATHAN FOX 49 Religion and (international politics: On the heuristics of identities, structures, and agents 199 FRIEDRICH KRATOCHWIL 50 Transnational religious actors and international politics 223 JEFF HAYNES 51 The Catholic Church: An underestimated and necessary actor in international affairs 241 JODOK TROY 52 Religion and foreign policy making in the USA, India and Iran: Towards a research agenda 250 XI

7 53 Iran's foreign policy after 11 September 275 KAVEH AFRASIABI AND ABBAS MALEKI 54 Ideology and pragmatism in Iran's foreign policy 285 R.K. RAMAZANI 55 The Saudi paradox 297 MICHAEL SCOTT DORAN 56 'There are no rules' (George W. Bush): International order after September ANDREW HURRELL 57 The chosen nation: The influence of religion on U.S. foreign policy 329 JOHN B. JUDIS 58 God is not neutral: Religion and U.S. foreign policy after 9/ ANDREW J. BACEVICH AND ELIZABETH H. PRODROMOU 59 The Israel lobby 350 JOHN MEARSHEIMER AND STEPHEN WALT 60 Turkish foreign policy since 2002: Between a 'post-islamist' government and a Kemalist state 375 PHILIP ROBINS 61 Transnational religion: Hindu and Muslim movements 392 PETER VAN DER VEER VOLUME IV RELIGION, DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY Acknowledgements ix 62 The forgotten factor: The uneasy relationship between religion and development 1 LEAH SELINGER 63 Agents of transformation? Donors, faith-based organisations and international development 22 GERARD CLARKE Xll

8 64 Introduction: The emerging alliance of world religions and ecology 44 MARY EVELYN TUCKER AND JOHN A. GRIM 65 Changing the climate of Christian internationalism: Global warming and human suffering 60 NOAH J. TOLY 66 Gender, faith and development: Rethinking the boundaries of intersectionality 69 ROBYN KENNEDY AND KIRSTY NOWLAN 67 Religion and development Revisited: Comparing Islam and Christianity with reference to the case of Iran 74 KAZEM ALAMDARI 68 Political Islam: Image and reality 94 MOHAMMED AYOOB 69 Islam, globalization, and economic performance in the Middle East 111 MARCUS NOLAND AND HOWARD PACK 70 Facing the inequalities of development: Some lessons from Judaism and Christianity 121 BERNARDO KLIKSBERG 71 Religion, European secular identities, and European integration 135 JOSE CASANOVA 72 The religious content of ethnic identities 150 CLAIRE MITCHELL 73 Religion and conflict 167 LUC REYCHLER 74 Religion as a peace tool 187 CHADWICK F. ALGER 75 Divine intervention: Regional reconciliation through faith 206 DAVID SMOCK xiii

9 76 Conflict prevention: The role of religion is the role of its actors 213 ANDREA BARTOLI 77 Conflict, conflict resolution and peace-building: The role of religion in Mozambique, Nigeria and Cambodia The clash of civilizations? 244 SAMUEL P. HUNTINGTON 79 The true clash of civilizations 264 RONALD INGLEHART AND PIPPA NORRIS 80 Clash of civilizations, or realism and liberalism Deja Vu?: Some evidence 273 BRUCE RUSSETT, JOHN R. ONEAL AND MICHAELENE COX 81 Al Qaeda: Ideology and action Sovereignty under attack: The international society meets the Al Qaeda network 321 BARAK MENDELSOHN 83 The Al-Qa'ida network and weapons of mass destruction 348 JONATHAN SPYER Index 369 xiv

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