Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
About the Book Series
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.
Islamisms: Navigations between the Nation-State and the Caliphate
1st Edition
By Samantha May
November 24, 2025
Islamisms: Navigations between the Nation-State and the Caliphate moves beyond viewing Islamism within the security/terrorism narrative by viewing Islamisms as various forms of postcolonial resistance to Westphalian models of governance, authority and territorialisations. Islamist movements are in ...
Religious and Identity-Based Roots of the War in Ukraine
1st Edition
Edited
By Marianna Napolitano, Federico Ruozzi
November 03, 2025
Religious and Identity-Based Roots of the War in Ukraine critically analyzes the religious and identity-based roots of the Russo-Ukrainian war from a long-term historical perspective. The book traces the elements that render this war a religious one, describing its relationship with political ...
Christian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology
1st Edition
By Charles McDaniel
September 19, 2025
Christian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology analyses Niebuhr’s The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness eighty years after publication and argues that it provides pertinent lessons for the contemporary era. The book considers how Niebuhr’s book — as well as his other work — ...
The End of Roe: The Religious Right’s Regulatory Fight Over Reproductive Rights
1st Edition
By Jeanine E. Kraybill
September 17, 2025
The End of Roe assesses abortion and the American legal and political system in the aftermath of the United States Supreme Court’s June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. In Dobbs, the US Supreme Court held that a woman did not have a constitutional right to terminate ...
Nationalism, Religious Violence, and Hate Speech in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe: Memories of Intolerance
1st Edition
Edited
By Francisco Javier Ramón Solans
August 29, 2025
Nationalism, Religious Violence, and Hate Speech in Nineteenth-Century Western Europe critically analyses the role played by different memories of past religious violence in public debates in nineteenth-century Europe. Looking back, European societies often did not seek to overcome their ...
Anti-Gender Mobilizations, Religion and Politics: An Italian Case Study
1st Edition
By Massimo Prearo
July 31, 2025
This book presents an innovative exploration of the rise of political forces that have coalesced around the anti-gender movement, shaping strategies that advocate novel intersections of religion, politicization of gender and sexuality, and radical and populist rejuvenation of conservative ...
Understanding the Roots of Intractability in Hindu—Muslim Conflicts in India: A Political Analysis
1st Edition
By Chirasree Mukherjee
July 17, 2025
Understanding the Roots of Intractability in Hindu–Muslim Conflicts in India examines why some political conflicts, especially those involving religion, prove difficult to resolve, utilizing the case study of religious conflicts between the Hindus and the Muslims in India. Traditional conflict ...
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life: Free and Equal
1st Edition
By Christoph Baumgartner
December 03, 2024
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all people are free to codetermine the future of their society and equally entitled to their religion and beliefs, given the historical bias towards ...
Exploring Religious Diversity and Covenantal Pluralism in Asia: Volume I, East & Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis R. Hoover
August 26, 2024
This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across East & Southeast Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for 'covenantal pluralism' in these regions. According to the Pew Religious Diversity Index, half of the world’s most religiously diverse countries are in Asia....
Exploring Religious Diversity and Covenantal Pluralism in Asia: Volume II, South & Central Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis R. Hoover
August 26, 2024
This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across South & Central Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for 'covenantal pluralism' in these regions. Going beyond banal appeals for mere 'tolerance', the theory of covenantal pluralism calls for a constitutional order...
When Politics Meets Religion: Navigating Old Challenges and New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Marko Veković, Miroljub Jevtić
August 05, 2024
When Politics Meets Religion presents a fresh exploration of the relationship between religion and politics worldwide. The volume includes topics covering Europe, such as the European far right, the contours of "European identity", and how religious cleavages affect value orientation of Europeans. ...
Towards A New Christian Political Realism: The Amsterdam School of Philosophy and the Role of Religion in International Relations
1st Edition
By Simon Polinder
July 24, 2024
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR. The ...