RELIGION, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Comprehensive, concise, and accessible, this book by one of the worlds leading authorities is required reading for anyone interested in the return of religion to global politics and international relations.
Giorgio Shani, International Christian University, Japan.
Jeffrey Haynes is one of the most senior and insightful scholars of religion and politics. This collection of essays is an excellent example of both the depth and breadth of his knowledge on the interaction between the religious and the political across the world.
Jonathan Fox, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Jeffrey Haynes is among the leading scholars in the research about religion and politics. This essential book includes his most relevant contributions to the field.
Luca Ozzano, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Torino, Italy.
A leading authority in the discipline, Jeffrey Haynes has contributed to many of the most significant debates in the fields of religion and politics, and religion and international relations in the last twenty years. This book brings together many of his most influential essays, offering a comprehensive analysis of religious actors and their political goals.
In recent years, scholars have identified a range of religious actors with a variety of political goals. The aim of this collection is to identify and examine political activities of selected religious actors in both domestic and international contexts. The introductory chapter sets the scene for the collection, providing a clear understanding of why, how and when religious actors act politically both within and between countries. Over the course of fifteen essays, Jeffrey Haynes presents a survey of the interaction of religion and politics, both domestically and internationally, in relation to a variety of issues, and draws the findings together in a new conclusion written for the volume.
This work will be of great interest to the growing number of scholars, students and practitioners internationally who work on religion and politics, in both domestic and international contexts.
Jeffrey Haynes is Associate Dean, Faculty of Law, Governance and International Relations at London Metropolitan University, UK.
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 churchstate relations to include the impact of religion on politics, conflict and development, including the late Samuel Huntingtons controversial yet influential thesis about clashing civilizations.
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, POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Selected essays
Jeffrey Haynes
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Haynes, Jeffrey.
Religion, politics, and international relations : selected essays / Jeffrey Haynes.
p. cm. -- (Routledge studies in religion and politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Religion and politics. 2. Religion and international relations. I. Title. BL65.P7H38 2011
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Acknowledgements
The work in this collection has been published previously in a variety of different forms. We would like to thank the publishers for granting permission to use the following copyright material:
Transnational Religious Actors and International Order, Perspectives, 17 (2) (December 2009), 4370. Reproduced with permission.
Religion and International Relations: What Are the Issues?, International Politics, 41 (3) (September 2004), 45162. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
The Political and Social Context of Intercivilisational Conflict and the Possibilities of Peace Building, The Israel Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1 (1) Special issue, Ben Mollov, guest editor: Intercivilizational Conflict: Can It Be Moderated?, Spring 2009, 2948. Reproduced with permission.
We would like to thank Taylor and Francis Ltd, (www.informaworld.com) for granting permission to use the following copyright material, reprinted by permission of the publisher:
Religion, Secularization and Politics: A Postmodern Conspectus, Third World Quarterly, 18 (4) (September 1997), 70928.
Religion and Politics: What Is the Impact of September 11?, Contemporary Politics, 9 (1) (March 2003), 715.
Popular Religion and Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa, Third World Quarterly, 16 (1) (March 1995), 89108.
Religion, Ethnicity, and Civil War in Africa: The Cases of Uganda and Sudan, The Round Table, 96 (390) (June 2007), 30517.
Conflict, Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building: The Role of Religion in Mozambique, Nigeria and Cambodia,
