Religion and Democratizations
This book examines key debates on religion and democratization from three main perspectives:
Religious traditions have core elements which are more or less conducive to democratization and democracy;
Religious traditions may be multi-vocal but at any moment there may be dominant voices more or less receptive to and encouraging of democratization;
Religious actors rarely if ever determine democratization outcomes. However, they may in various ways and with a range of outcomes be of significance for democratization.
The contributions are divided into two sections: (1) religion, democratization and democracy, and (2) secularization, democratization and democracy. Overall, they examine the three assertions in the bullet points above. The books starting point is that in general around the world, religions have left their assigned place in the private sphere. This means they have in many cases become recognisably politically active in various ways and with assorted outcomes. This re-emergence from political marginality dates back until at least the 1980s. At that time, the US sociologist, Jose Casanova noted that what was new and became news was the widespread and simultaneous refusal of religions to be restricted to the private sphere. This involved a remodelling and re-assumption of public roles by religion, which theories of secularization had long condemned to social and political marginalization.
This book was published as a special issue of Democratizations.
Jeffrey Haynes is Associate Head of Department with responsibility for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Department of Law, Governance and International Relations, London Metropolitan University.
Religion and Democratizations
Edited by Jeffrey Haynes
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CONTENTS
Jeffrey Haynes
Section 1: Religion, democratization and democracy
Mirjam Knkler and Julia Leininger
Jodok Troy
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
Amal Jamal
Gladys Ganiel
Section 2: Secularization, democratization and democracy
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis
tar B. Gzaydn
Amlie Barras
Ayelet Harel-Shalev
Jeffrey Haynes
Amlie Barras is currently finishing her PhD thesis at the London School of Economics in the Department of Government. She specializes in comparative politics, with a focus on secularism, Islam and human rights.
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse is a Research Fellow at the Peace Institute Frankfurt (PRIF), Germany. Her research interests include religion and politics in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Democratic Peace, and transnational religious activism in global governance. She holds a PhD from Goethe-University Frankfurt and was a visiting research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Notre Dame University, in spring 2010. She is the author of Democracy and Violence in the Holy Land: Politicized Religion and the Failure of the Oslo Peace Process (Campus 2008, in German).
Gladys Ganiel lectures in conflict resolution and reconciliation studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast. Her research interests include Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity, evangelicalism, religion and politics in southern Africa, and the Northern Ireland conflict. She is the author of Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland (Palgrave 2008), co-author with Claire Mitchell of Meet the Evangelicals: Journeys in a Northern Irish Religious Subculture (UCD Press, forthcoming) and numerous articles about religion and politics in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
tar Gzaydn is Professor of Law and Politics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. She is also the head of the Political Studies programme affiliated with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Istanbul Technical University. She has studied at Georgetown University International Law Institute, and holds a MCJ degree from New York University School of Law and a LLD degree from Istanbul University. Her book titled Regulating Religion in Turkey will be published by University of Utah Press in 2011. She is also She is the author of numerous articles about religion, gender and politics in Turkey.
Ioannis N. Grigoriadis is Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, Bilkent University. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Athens, where he studied Law. In 2002 he obtained a Master of International Affairs (MIA) and a Certificate of Middle Eastern Studies from the School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University. In 2005, he earned a PhD in Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Between 2004 and 2007 he taught as Instructor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University and as Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations, Isik University in Istanbul. Between 2007 and 2009 he was Lecturer at the Department of Turkish and Modem Asian Studies, University of Athens. His research interests include European, Middle Eastern and energy politics, nationalism and democratization.
Ayelet Harel-Shalev is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Politics and Government Department, Ben-Gurion University. Her forthcoming book is titled The Challenge of Sustaining Democracy in Deeply Divided Societies: Citizenship, Rights, and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel (Rowman & Littlefield 2010). It is based partly on her PhD dissertation, which won the Israeli Political Science Association (ISPSA) prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation, 2006. She is specializing in comparative political studies; Indian politics and society; ethnic conflicts; and Israeli politics and society.
Jeffrey Haynes is Associate Head of Department with responsibility for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Department of Law, Governance and International Relations, London Metropolitan University.
Amal Jamal is a senior lecturer at the Political Science Department at Tel Aviv University and chair of The Walter Lebach Center for ArabJewish Coexistence. His research fields include political theory and communication, nationalism and democracy, civil society and social movements, indigenous minority politics and civic equality. He has published extensively on Palestinian and Israeli politics and society. Three of his recent books are:
