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Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
. Ed(S): Shah, Timothy Samuel; Stepan, Alfred; Toft, Monica Duffy
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Description for Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Shah, Timothy Samuel; Stepan, Alfred; Toft, Monica Duffy. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; HRAM2; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 234 x 21. Weight in Grams: 526.
In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. Rethinking Religion and World Affairs seeks to question and remedy the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship. Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, this volume will form the first comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interconnections of religion and global politics. These essays grapple 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 ... Read more
In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. Rethinking Religion and World Affairs seeks to question and remedy the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship. Drawing on the work of leading scholars as well as policy makers and analysts, this volume will form the first comprehensive and authoritative guide to the interconnections of religion and global politics. These essays grapple 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199827992
SKU
V9780199827992
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Ref
99-23
About . Ed(S): Shah, Timothy Samuel; Stepan, Alfred; Toft, Monica Duffy
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
Reviews for Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
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 ... Read more