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Holy Wars and Holy Alliance: The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage
Manlio Graziano
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Hardback. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HRAM2; HRAM9; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics. At the same time, the Catholic Church has sought a holy alliance among the world's faiths to recentralize devout influence, an important, albeit little-noticed, evolution in international relations. Holy Wars and Holy Alliance explores the nation-state's current crisis in order to better understand the religious resurgence's implications for geopolitics. Manlio Graziano looks at how the Catholic ... Read more
Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics. At the same time, the Catholic Church has sought a holy alliance among the world's faiths to recentralize devout influence, an important, albeit little-noticed, evolution in international relations. Holy Wars and Holy Alliance explores the nation-state's current crisis in order to better understand the religious resurgence's implications for geopolitics. Manlio Graziano looks at how the Catholic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Religion, Culture and Public Life
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174626
SKU
V9780231174626
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About Manlio Graziano
Manlio Graziano teaches geopolitics and geopolitics of religions at Sorbonne University, the American Graduate School in Paris, and the Geneva Institute of Geopolitical Studies. His books include The Failure of Italian Nationhood: The Geopolitics of a Troubled Identity (2010), Essential Geopolitics: A Handbook (2011), and In Rome We Trust: The Rise of Catholics in American Political Life (2017).
Reviews for Holy Wars and Holy Alliance: The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage
In a clear and luminous way, Graziano demonstrates how religions, in the plural, came to reinvest in the political sphere and provides his readers with a full comprehension of the geopolitical dynamics at work in our world today.
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University It has become commonplace that the old certainties that governed postwar politics are dissolving in the ... Read more
Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Columbia University It has become commonplace that the old certainties that governed postwar politics are dissolving in the ... Read more