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.
Catholic Mediations in Southern Europe: The Invisible Politics of Religion
1st Edition
By Xabier Itçaina
June 30, 2020
Investigating the role played by religious actors in sociopolitical issues as a manifestation of the invisible politics of religion, this book concentrates on the social economy, support to migrants, the fight against social exclusion and pacifist campaigns, where religious actors have played ...
Christians and the Middle East Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Rowe, John Dyck, Jens Zimmermann
June 30, 2020
Christians and the Middle East Conflict deals with the relationship of Christians and Christian theology to the various conflicts in the Middle East, a topic that is often sensationalized but still insufficiently understood. Political developments over the last two decades, however, have prompted ...
Conservative Christian Politics in Russia and the United States: Dreaming of Christian nations
1st Edition
By John Anderson
June 30, 2020
This book explores the politics of conservative Christian churches and social movements in Russia and the United States, focusing on their similar concerns but very different modes of political engagement.Whilst secularisation continues to chip away at religious adherence and practice in Europe, ...
Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere
1st Edition
Edited
By Maria Rovisco, Sebastian Kim
June 30, 2020
Although emerging scholarship in the social sciences suggests that religion can be a potential catalyst of cosmopolitanism and global citizenship, few attempts have been made to bring to the fore new theoretical positions and empirical analyses of how cosmopolitanism -- as a philosophical notion, a...
European Culture Wars and the Italian Case: Which side are you on?
1st Edition
By Luca Ozzano, Alberta Giorgi
June 30, 2020
This book aims to understand the European political debate about contentious issues, framed in terms of religious values by religious and/or secular actors in 21st century. It specifically focuses on the Italian case, which, due to its peculiar history and contemporary political landscape, is a ...
Muslims and Political Participation in Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Peace
June 30, 2020
This new volume showcases the latest research into Muslim political participation both in terms of electoral politics and civil society initiatives.Muslims play a prominent role in British political life yet what do we actually know about the involvement of British Muslims beyond the existence of a...
Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus
1st Edition
Edited
By Ansgar Jödicke
December 12, 2019
In the Caucasus region, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their powerful neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU negotiate their future policies and spheres of influence. This volume explores the role of religion in the South Caucasus to describe and explain how transnational religious ...
Religion, State and the United Nations: Value Politics
1st Edition
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By Anne Stensvold
December 12, 2019
This volume approaches the UN as a laboratory of religio-political value politics. Over the last two decades religion has acquired increasing influence in international politics, and religious violence and terrorism has attracted much scholarly attention. But there is another parallel development ...
The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom: Why Foreign Policy Needs Political Theology
1st Edition
By Robert Joustra
December 12, 2019
Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America. This book explores how debates over the American Office of Religious Freedom and its International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA, ...
Religion and the Realist Tradition: From Political Theology to International Relations Theory and Back
1st Edition
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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, ...
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 ...