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Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

Series Editor: Jeffrey Haynes

This series aims to publish high quality works on the topic of the resurgence of political forms of religion in both national and international contexts. This trend has been especially noticeable in the post-cold war era (that is, since the late 1980s). It has affected all the ‘world religions’ (including, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism) in various parts of the world (such as, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa).

The series welcomes books that use a variety of approaches to the subject, drawing on scholarship from political science, international relations, security studies, and contemporary history.

Books in the series explore these religions, regions and topics both within and beyond the conventional domain of ‘church-state’ relations to include the impact of religion on politics, conflict and development, including the late Samuel Huntington’s controversial – yet influential – thesis about ‘clashing civilisations’.

In sum, the overall purpose of the book series is to provide a comprehensive survey of what is currently happening in relation to the interaction of religion and politics, both domestically and internationally, in relation to a variety of issues.

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  1. Religion and Democracy

    A Worldwide Comparison

    By Carsten Anckar

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    This important new study empirically assesses the relationship between religion and democracy, looking at the global, regional and individual country picture. Using a wide range of quantitative data, Anckar tests the validity of Huntington’s claim that democracy and religion are tightly connected,...

    Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. An Introduction to Religion and Politics

    Theory and Practice

    By Jonathan Fox

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    An Introduction to Religion and Politics offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics, and provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of the most significant debates, issues and methodologies. Fox examines the ways in which religion influences...

    Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Politics and Religion in the United Kingdom

    By Steve Bruce

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    This important new volume seeks to provide significant contribution to our understanding of religion and politics, demonstrating through comparisons with other countries the unusually complex nature of the interaction of religion and politics in the United Kingdom. Bruce provides a detailed and...

    Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Representing Religion in the European Union

    Does God Matter?

    Edited by Lucian N. Leustean

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    Religious actors are becoming part of the EU bureaucratic system, and their mobilisation in Brussels and Strasbourg in the last decade has increased dramatically. This book explores the mechanism and impact of religious representation by examining relations between religious practitioners and...

    Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Politics, Religion and Gender

    Framing and Regulating the Veil

    Edited by Sieglinde Rosenberger, Birgit Sauer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended...

    Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge

  6. Religious Actors in the Public Sphere

    Means, Objectives, and Effects

    Edited by Jeff Haynes, Anja Hennig

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    This book seeks to argue that religious actors play a crucial role in the complex processes of entering or re-entering the public spheres of state, political, and civil society. Seeking to ameliorate the analytical lacuna and concentrating on both the meso and micro levels of religious public...

    Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge

  7. Religion, Politics and International Relations

    Selected Essays

    By Jeff Haynes

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    A leading authority in the discipline, Jeffrey Haynes has contributed to many of the most significant debates in the fields of religion & politics and religion & international relations in the last twenty years. This book brings together many of his most influential essays, offering a...

    Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge

  8. Christianity and Party Politics

    Keeping the faith

    By Martin Steven

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    Christianity and Party Politics aims to discuss and evaluate the contemporary relationship between party politics and religion. The book focuses on the important role of the Church in both electoral politics and public policy formulation in the twenty first century, and argues that contrary to the...

    Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge

  9. Politics and the Religious Imagination

    Edited by John H.A. Dyck, Paul S. Rowe, Jens Zimmermann

    Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

    Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that...

    Published June 2nd 2010 by Routledge

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Religion in the Context of Globalization: Essays on Concept, Form, and Political Implication
    By Peter Beyer
    To Be Published June 17th 2013
  2. Religion in International Relations Theory: Interactions and Possibilities
    By Nukhet Sandal, Jonathan Fox
    To Be Published July 20th 2013
  3. Realism, Religion and International Relations
    Edited by Jodok Troy
    To Be Published July 31st 2013
  4. Religion, Identity and Human Security
    By Giorgio Shani
    To Be Published August 31st 2013
  5. Christian Communities in the Middle East: Faith, Identity and Integration
    By Fiona McCallum
    To Be Published September 30th 2013
  6. Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere
    Edited by Maria Rovisco, Sebastian Kim
    To Be Published October 29th 2013

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