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.
God and the EU: Faith in the European Project
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Chaplin, Gary Wilton
April 25, 2018
The current political, economic and financial crises facing the EU reveal a deeper cultural, indeed spiritual, malaise – a crisis in ‘the soul of Europe’. Many observers are concluding that the EU cannot be restored to health without a new appreciation of the contribution of religion to its past ...
An Introduction to Religion and Politics: Theory and Practice
2nd Edition
By Jonathan Fox
February 16, 2018
This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion and politics and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject’s most significant debates, issues, and methodologies. It begins by asking the basic questions of how social scientists ...
Religious NGOs in International Relations: The Construction of 'the Religious' and 'the Secular'
1st Edition
By Karsten Lehmann
October 12, 2017
Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and active in international decision-making. Among the estimated several million NGOs in existence today, an increasingly visible number of organizations are defining ...
Religion, Identity and Human Security
1st Edition
By Giorgio Shani
September 04, 2015
This work seeks to provide a fresh examination of the relationship between religion, identity and security in a globalizing world, arguing that in order to address human security issues we must seek a reconceptualization of human security along post-secular lines. Religion, Identity and Human ...
Religion in International Relations Theory: Interactions and Possibilities
1st Edition
By Nukhet Sandal, Jonathan Fox
July 16, 2015
There is a growing realization among international relations scholars and practitioners that religion is a critical factor in global politics. The Iranian Revolution, the September 11 attacks, the ethno-religious conflicts such as the ones in the former Yugoslavia and Sri Lanka are among the many ...
Representing Religion in the European Union: Does God Matter?
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucian N. Leustean
November 10, 2014
Religious actors are becoming part of the EU bureaucratic system, and their mobilisation in Brussels and Strasbourg in the last decade has increased dramatically. This book explores the mechanism and impact of religious representation by examining relations between religious practitioners and ...
Religion in the Context of Globalization: Essays on Concept, Form, and Political Implication
1st Edition
By Peter Beyer
June 04, 2014
Peter Beyer has been a central figure in the debate about religion and globalization for many years, this volume brings together some of his key essays which together focus on the form and role of religion in the context of globalization. Each of the ten chapters explores a different but related ...
Politics and the Religious Imagination
1st Edition
Edited
By John Dyck, Paul Rowe, Jens Zimmermann
September 20, 2013
Politics and the Religious Imagination is the product of a group of interdisciplinary scholars each analyzing the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that ...
Politics, Religion and Gender: Framing and Regulating the Veil
1st Edition
Edited
By Sieglinde Rosenberger, Birgit Sauer
August 07, 2013
Heated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended ...
Religious Actors in the Public Sphere: Means, Objectives, and Effects
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeff Haynes, Anja Hennig
August 07, 2013
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 ...
Christianity and Party Politics: Keeping the faith
1st Edition
By Martin Steven
July 08, 2013
Christianity and Party Politics aims to discuss and evaluate the contemporary relationship between party politics and religion. The book focuses on the important role of the Church in both electoral politics and public policy formulation in the twenty first century, and argues that contrary to the ...
Politics and Religion in the United Kingdom
1st Edition
By Steve Bruce
July 26, 2012
This important new volume seeks to provide significant contribution to our understanding of religion and politics, demonstrating through comparisons with other countries the unusually complex nature of the interaction of religion and politics in the United Kingdom. Bruce provides a detailed and ...