This third edition of the successful Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics provides a definitive global survey of the interaction of religion and politics. From the United States to the Middle East, from Asia to Africa, and beyond, religion continues to be an important factor in political activity and organisation.
Featuring contributions from an international team of experts, this volume examines the political aspects of the world's major religions, including crucial contemporary issues such as religion and climate change, religion and migration, and religion and war. Each chapter has been updated to reflect the latest developments and thinking in the field, and the handbook also includes new chapters on topics such as religious freedom, religion and populism, proselytizing, humanism and politics, and religious soft power.
The four main themes addressed are:
• World religions and politics
• Religion and governance
• Religion and international relations
• Religion, security and development
References at the end of each chapter guide the reader towards the most up-to-date information on these key topics. This book is an indispensable source of information for students, academics, and the wider public interested in the dynamic relationship between politics and religion.
1. Introduction: Religion and Politics in an Era of Uncertainty
Jeffrey Haynes
Part I: World Religions and Politics
2. Buddhism and Politics
Peter Friedlander
3. Conservative Protestant Political Opinion: A Comparative Perspective
Dennis R. Hoover and Ruth Melkonian-Hoover
4. The Catholic Church and Catholicism in Global Politics
Allen D. Hertzke
5. Confucianism: Classical, Neo- and "New"
Michael D. Barr
6. Hindu Nationalism and Politics in India
Shylashri Shankar
7. Sunni Islam and Islamism
Gudrun Krämer
8. Shia Islam and Politics
Jon Armajani
9. Religion and Politics in Israel: Boundaries and Values
Hayim Katsman and Guy Ben-Porat
Part II: Religion and Governance
10. The Politics of International Religious Freedom
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
11. Religion on the Battlefield
Ron E. Hassner
12. Right-Wing Populism and Religion in Comparative Perspective
Jeffrey Haynes
13. Religion and Political Parties
Luca Ozzano
14. Religion, Politics and Civil Society
Jeffrey Haynes
15. What is Exceptional about Religion? Major Debates in International Relations, Islamism Studies and Peace and Conflict Research
Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Morten Valbjørn and Dino Krause
16. Religion and Anti-immigration Parties in the West: Identitarian Christianism and Exclusivist Secularism
Tobias Cremer
17. The Neglected Interactions of Religion and Nation and How They Shape Politicization of Religion
Jocelyne Cesari
18. The Interplay among Religion, Politics and Law in Europe: New Challenges and Future Trajectories
Adelaide Madera
19. May I Have a Word with You? Global Patterns of Restrictions on Proselytizing
Jonathan Fox
20. (Secular) Humanism and Politics
Stefan Schröder
Part III: Religion and International Relations
21. Postsecularism and International Relations
Luca Mavelli and Erin K. Wilson
22. Integrating Religion into International Relations Theory
Nukhet Sandal and Jonathan Fox
23. Religion and Foreign Policy
Nukhet Sandal
24. Transnational Religious Actors and International Relations
Giorgio Shani
25. Fighting the Fossil-Fuel Pharaoh: American Jews and Climate Action
David Krantz
Part IV: Religion, Security and Development
26. The Ambivalence of Religious Soft Power
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk
27. When Political Religion is a ‘Good Thing’?: Feminist Storytelling around Less-heard Understandings of ‘Political Religion’
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
28. Faith-based Organisations and Development
Emma Tomalin
29. Religious Terrorism in Global Politics
Mark Juergensmeyer
30. Religious Peacebuilding
Atalia Omer and Joram Tarusarira
Biography
Jeffrey Haynes is Emeritus Professor of Politics at London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. His areas of expertise are religion and international relations, religion and politics, democracy and democratisation, development studies, and comparative politics and globalisation. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books. He received the International Studies Association Religion and International Relations Section’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 2016. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Democratization, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Religion, and Series Editor of the book series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics.
“This new edition weaves together some of the most difficult problems in religion and politics with some of the most brilliant minds. You will not find in this anthology a harmony of views, instead you will find the considered, internationally renowned wisdom of world experts sharpening each other—iron on iron—on some of the most fundamental questions about religion and politics in world affairs today. This new edition invites us not only to read and learn, but to think, to deliberate, and to wonder. It is an indispensable edition for any student in world affairs.”
Robert J. Joustra, Redeemer University, Canada
“Through two previous editions, Jeffrey Haynes’ Routledge Handbook of Religion and Politics proved to be a reliable and fascinating reference work. This third edition, like the two previous editions, is masterfully executed, covering the major religious faiths as well as a range of topics from religious-inspired terrorism to religion and civil society and the religious dimension in right-wing populism. No serious library should be without a copy of this third edition.”
Sabrina P. Ramet, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
