1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Politics and Ideology
This comprehensive handbook examines relationships between religion, politics and ideology, with a focus on several world religions — Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism — in a variety of contexts, regions and countries.
Relationships between religion, politics and ideology help mould people’s attitudes about the way that political systems, both domestically and internationally, are organised and operate. While conceptually separate, religion, politics and ideology often become intertwined and as a result their relationships evolve over time. This volume brings together a number of expert contributors who explore a wide range of topical and controversial issues, including gender, nationalism, communism, fascism, populism and Islamism. Such topics inform the overall aim of the handbook: to provide a comprehensive summary of the relationships between religion, politics and ideology, including basic issues and new approaches.
This handbook is a major research resource for students, researchers and professionals from various disciplinary backgrounds, including religious studies, political science, international relations, and sociology.
Introduction: Religion, Politics and Ideology
Jeffrey Haynes
Section 1: Core Issues and Topics
1. Liberal Religion
Emanuel de Kadt
2. Secularism
Linde R. Draaisma and Erin K. Wilson
3. Atheism and Religion
Stuart McAnulla
4. Nationalism, Religion, Ideology
Atalia Omer
5. Religion and Gender
Leila Hadj Abdou
6. Life After Communism: Contemporary Orthodoxy, Politics and Society in Eastern Europe
Greg Simons
7. The Radical Right in Europe: Cultural Shifts and Religious Nativism
Michael Minkenberg
8. Caught in Mid-Stream: Islamism in the Transition from Politics of Piety to Formal Politics
Roel Meijer
Section 2: New Debates and Controversies
9. Religion Between Ethics and Ideology
Joseph A. Camilleri
10. Religion and the Ideology of Populism
Timothy Peace
11. Anarchism and Religion
Erik Ringmar
12. Religion and the Alt-Right
George Hawley
13. Making Sense of Salafism: Theological Foundations, Ideological Iterations, and Political Manifestations
Naveed S. Sheikh
14. Buddhist Nationalism
Saul Tobias
15. Christianism
Ben Ryan
16. Evangelicals and Ideology—Transnational or Local? Examining the Case of Latin American Evangelicals
Ruth Melkonian-Hoover and Dennis R. Hoover
Section 3: Country Case Studies
17. Italy
Luca Ozzano
18. A World Awakening: American Evangelicalism and Late-War Order
Robert J. Joustra
19. Russia: Orthodox Christianity
Marko Veković
20. Religious Fundamentalism, Liberal Nationalism, and Sectarian Solidarity Among Lebanese
Mansoor Moaddel, Jean Kors and Johan Gärde
21. Politics, Identity and Religion in Turkey: From Atatürk to the AKP
Jeffrey Haynes
22. Iran: Construction of a Shia Political Ideology in the Modern Age
Alireza Raisi
23. Religion and Ideology in Sri Lanka: Buddhism
Peter Friedlander
24. Hinduism, Hindutva, and Ideology
Abdul Shaban
25. Israelization of Judaism
David Ohana
Biography
Jeffrey Haynes is Emeritus Professor of Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK. His areas of expertise are religion and international relations, religion and politics, democracy and democratisation, development studies, and comparative politics and globalisation. His publications include more than 50 books, most recently: Trump and the Politics of Neo-Nationalism (2021), Religion, Conflict and Post-Secular Politics (2020), and The Routledge Handbook to Religion and Political Parties (ed. 2020).
