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1st Edition

Religion and Political Change in the Modern World

Edited By Jeffrey Haynes Copyright 2014
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge
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The purpose of the book is to ascertain whether there is a generic impact that ‘religion’ brings to bear on recent political changes in the modern world. Over the last two decades or so, there have been increasing numbers of political issues with which various manifestations of religion engage. This impact is not restricted exclusively to countries in the ‘developed’ or ‘developing’ world.... Read more

1. Introduction: Religion and Political Change in the Modern World Jeffrey Haynes  Part 1: Theoretical and Conceptual Issues  2. 'Did Protestantism create democracy? Steve Bruce  3. Unfinished business: the Catholic Church, communism, and democratization Lan T. Chu  4. Does faith limit immorality? The politics of religion and corruption Udi Sommer, Pazit Ben Nun-Bloom and Gizem Arikan  5. Political Islam in the Mediterranean: the view from democratization studies Frederic Volpi  Part 2: Case Studies  6. Religion and democratization in Africa Jeffrey Haynes  7. Bullets over ballots: Islamist groups, the state and electoral violence in Egypt and Morocco Francesco Cavatorta and Hendrik Kraettzschmar  8. Islamic reformation discourses: popular sovereignty and religious secularisation in Iran Naser Ghobadzadeh and Lily Zubaidah Rahim  9. The religious experience as affecting ambivalence: the case of democratic performance in Israel Pazit Ben Nun-Bloom, Mina Zemach and Asher Arian (deceased)

Biography

Jeffrey Haynes is the co-editor of Democratization. He is the director of the Centre for the Study of Religion, Conflict and Cooperation and Professor of Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK.

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