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.
Geopolitics of Global Catholicism: Politics of Religion in Space and Time
1st Edition
By Petr Kratochvíl
May 29, 2024
Geopolitics of Global Catholicism uncovers the key trends in today’s Catholicism, providing an incisive analysis of its deep entanglement with national, regional, as well as global politics. This book offers an exciting exploration of five versions of local Catholicism(s) and sheds light on the ...
Religion after Deliberative Democracy
1st Edition
By Timothy Stanley
January 29, 2024
Religion after Deliberative Democracy responds to gaps exposed by the case of religion in deliberative democratic theory. Religion's persistent visibility in political life has called for new solutions for healing deeply divided societies. In response, the author begins with Jeffrey Stout’s ...
Security, Religion, and the Rule of Law: International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Tania Pagotto, Joshua M. Roose, G. P. Marcar
December 22, 2023
Security, Religion, and the Rule of Law argues that true, substantive, and sustainable national security is only possible through respect for the rule of law, human rights, and religious freedom. Despite the emphasis on national security and the war on terror that has preoccupied governments for ...
A Quarter Century of the “Clash of Civilizations”
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Haynes
September 25, 2023
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 ...
Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements
1st Edition
Edited
By Warren S. Goldstein, Jean-Pierre Reed
May 31, 2023
Religion in Rebellions, Revolutions, and Social Movements demonstrates that, while religion is often a social force that maintains, if not legitimates, the sociopolitical order, it is also a decisive factor in economic, social, and political conflict. The book explores how and under what conditions...
Explaining Religious Party Strength: State Capacity, Social Services, and Religious Civil Society
1st Edition
By Mário Rebelo
December 30, 2022
Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others. Drawing on insights from political science and sociology, this book argues that religious parties are typically formed for defensive reasons, reacting against...
Religion, Law and the Politics of Ethical Diversity: Conscientious Objection and Contestation of Civil Norms
1st Edition
Edited
By Claude Proeschel, David Koussens, Francesco Piraino
September 26, 2022
This book provides a multidisciplinary and comparative look at the contemporary phenomenon of conscientious objection or contestation in the name of religion and examines the key issues that emerge in terms of citizenship and democracy. These are analysed by looking at the different ways of ...
Democratization in Christian Orthodox Europe: Comparing Greece, Serbia and Russia
1st Edition
By Marko Veković
May 06, 2022
For a long time, Orthodox Christianity was regarded as a religious tradition that was incompatible with democracy. This book challenges this incompatibility thesis, offering an innovative and fresh theoretical framework for dealing with the issue of Orthodoxy and democracy. This book focuses on the...
Religion and Democracy: A Worldwide Comparison
2nd Edition
By Carsten Anckar
November 30, 2021
This fully updated new edition empirically assesses the relationship between religion and democracy, looking at global, regional, and individual countries’ perspectives. Using a wide range of quantitative data, the author tests the validity of Huntington's claim that democracy and religion are ...
Islam, Liberalism, and Ontology: A Critical Re-evaluation
1st Edition
By Joseph J. Kaminski
March 31, 2021
This book offers comparative ontologies of both Islam and liberalism as discourses more broadly construed. The author argues that, despite recent efforts to speak of overlapping consensuses and discursive congruence, the fundamental categories that constitute "Islam" and "Liberalism" remain very ...
The Politics of New Atheism
1st Edition
By Stuart McAnulla, Steven Kettell, Marcus Schulzke
December 18, 2020
New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, yet it also has strongly political dimensions. This book analyses the political ...
Religion and the Realist Tradition: From Political Theology to International Relations Theory and Back
1st Edition
Edited
By Jodok Troy
July 31, 2018
This volume picks up a rather uninvested field of international relations theory: the influence of religion on Realism as well as the power of Realism to address religious issues in world politics. Although classical scholars of Realism rarely mention religion explicitly in their well-known work, ...