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Religious Actors in the Public Sphere

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 involvement, the contributors explain how representatives from religious and political institutions act and interact in a variety of ways for various purposes.

Analysing empirical examples from both Europe and beyond, and including a variety of religions, including multi-faith platforms, the volume examines selected religious actors objectives, means and strategies and effects in order to address the following questions:

What are selected religious actors public and/or political activities and objectives?

In what ways and with what results do selected religious actors operate in various public spheres?

What are the consequences of religious actors political involvement, and which factors condition the degree to which they are successful?

Whilst focusing mainly on Europe, the book also utilizes examples from Egypt, Turkey and the USA to provide a valuable and unique comparative focus. The contributors demonstrate that various religious actors, whether functioning as interest groups or social movements, and almost irrespective of the religious tradition to which they belong and the culture from which they emanate, do not necessarily differ markedly in terms of strategies.

This important study will be of great interest to all scholars of international politics, religion and public policy.

Jeffrey Haynes is Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Governance and International Relations at London Metropolitan University, UK.

Anja Hennig has a PhD in Comparative Politics from the European University Viadrina, Germany.

Routledge studies in religion and politics

Edited by Jeffrey Haynes

London Metropolitan University, UK

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.

Politics and the Religious Imagination
Edited by John Dyck, Paul Rowe and Jens Zimmermann

Christianity and Party Politics
Keeping the faith
Martin H. M. Steven

Religion, Politics and International Relations
Selected essays
Jeffrey Haynes

Religion and Democracy
A worldwide comparison
Carsten Anckar

Religious Actors in the Public Sphere
Means, objectives and effects
Edited by Jeffrey Haynes & Anja Hennig

Religious Actors in the Public
Sphere

Means, objectives and effects

Edited by Jeffrey Haynes and
Anja Hennig

First published 2011

by Routledge

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2011 selection and editorial matter Jeffrey Haynes and Anja Hennig; individual contributors, their contributions.

The right of Jeffrey Haynes and Anja Hennig to be identified as authors of the editorial material and of the authors for their individual chapters has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988.

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ISBN: 978-0-415-61035-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-203-80735-4 (ebk)

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Contributors

Caelesta Braun-Poppelaars is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Political Science of the University of Antwerp. Her research interests include the policy impact and political strategies of interest groups in multi-level governance systems and stakeholder management by regulatory agencies. Her recent publications appear in Governance, West European Politics and Administration & Society.

Flora Burchianti is a post-doctoral research fellow at the GRITIM-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, for which she participates to the research project ACCEPT PLURALISM, funded under the EC-7th FP. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Sciences Po Bordeaux, France (2010). Her dissertation examined local policies, contentions and social movements about the settlement of undocumented immigrants in France and Spain. Her main research interests include social movements supporting immigrants locally and how immigration reshapes territorial belonging and citizenship in host countries.

Evelyn Bush is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham University. She received her PhD in Sociology from cornell University in 2005. Her research has focused largely on organized religious participation and influence in international and foreign policy institutions, especially in the field of human rights. Most recently she has turned her attention to the implications of institutional discourse and classification pertaining to religious freedom for the protection of human rights as applied to women. Her work has appeared in Social Forces and Sociological Theory, and she is a collaborator on the Religious NGOs at the United Nations project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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