A Quarter Century of the Clash of Civilizations
The clash of civilizations focuses on conflict and cooperation between and within states. Dealing with the clash is essential for a peaceful and harmonious world.
The clash of civilizations is a topic of great interest around the world and constitutes an important dimension of religion and international relations. In the quarter century since Huntington first aired his controversial framework, inter-civilizational clash and dialogue have become mainstream issues both in international relations and in many Western countries domestic concerns. The book examines a key question: how does Samuel Huntingtons clash of civilizations paradigm help explain current Western governments responses to Muslim migration and related security issues? Understanding relations between the West/Westerners and Muslim-majority societies/Muslims is impossible without being aware that right-wing populist politicians in the West, as well as some policy makers and commentators, seem to view all Muslims in a malign way. This indicates a lack of willingness to make a distinction between, on the one hand, the mass of moderate, ordinary, and peaceful Muslims and, on the other hand, a small minority of Islamist extremists and even smaller number of Islamist terrorists. The result is a crucial topic of our times: how do different civilizations coexist in a small and increasingly congested planet without conflict?
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of The Review of Faith & International Affairs.
Jeffrey Haynes is Emeritus Professor at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the author or editor of more than 50 books. The most recent are: Peace, Politics, and Religion (ed.), Basel, Switzerland: MDPI, 2020, and Religion, Conflict and Post-Secular Politics, London: Routledge, 2020.
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 Huntingtons 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.
Religion, Conflict and Post-Secular Politics
Jeffrey Haynes
Democratization in Christian Orthodox Europe
Comparing Greece, Serbia and Russia
Marko Vekovi
Islam, Liberalism and Ontology
A Critical Re-evaluation
Joseph J. Kaminski
Religion, Law and the Politics of Ethical Diversity
Conscientious Objection and Contestation of Civil Norms
Edited by Claude Proeschel, David Koussens and Francesco Piraino
A Quarter Century of the Clash of Civilizations
Edited by Jeffrey Haynes
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Contents
Citation Information
Notes on Contributors
Jeffrey Haynes
1 From Huntington to Trump: Twenty-Five Years of the Clash of Civilizations
Jeffrey Haynes
2 Civilization as Disciplinization and the Consequences for Religion and World Politics
Jocelyne Cesari
3 Civilizational Clash or Balderdash? The Causes of Religious Discrimination in Western and European Christian-Majority Democracies
Jonathan Fox
4 Europe versus Islam?: Right-Wing Populist Discourse and the Construction of a Civilizational Identity
Ayhan Kaya and Aye Tecmen
5 Religion, Cleavages, and Right-Wing Populist Parties: The Italian Case
Luca Ozzano
6 Religion as a Weapon: Invoking Religion in Secularized Societies
Petr Kratochvl
7 Cultural Barbarism in Relation to Women?: Huntingtons Theory and the German Case of Mass Sexual Assaults on New Years Eve 2015
Barbara Pasamonik
8 Muslim Calls to Prayer in the Swedish Welfare State
Erik Ringmar
The chapters in this book were originally published in The Review of Faith & International Affairs, volume 17, issue 1 (March 2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction: The Clash of Civilizations and Relations between the West and the Muslim World
Jeffrey Haynes
The Review of Faith & International Affairs, volume 17, issue 1 (March 2019) pp. 110
