Religion & Politics

The book examines relevant issues that involve a focus on struggles around the position of religious traditions and actors in relation both to democratization and democracy in the context of secularization in the Mediterranean region._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Mediterranea..

This volume analyses a broad geographical focus to include Belfast, Jerusalem and other ethno-nationally divided cities, as well as diverse cities from the Balkans, the Middle East, Nigeria and Japan._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of Space and Polity...

_x005F_x000D_ This book highlights the diverse ways in which religions first and foremost make use of the traditional power and communication channels available to them, like strategies of conversion, the preservation of traditional value systems, and the intertwining of religious and political powe..

The number of religious NGOs (RNGOs) engaging with the United Nations (UN) has grown considerably in recent years. This volume examines whether the RNGOs’ involvement polarizes political debates at the UN or facilitates agreement on policy issues...

Looking at the individual and collective role of religious studies scholars and theologians in public life, this book will be of great interest to all scholars and academics involved in religious studies and theology across the academy...

This study looks at the dynamics of this new religious pluralism as it influences the global political landscape. Several specific transnational religious actors are examined in the chapters including: American Evangelical Protestants, Roman Catholics, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Su..

This study looks at the dynamics of this new religious pluralism as it influences the global political landscape. Several specific transnational religious actors are examined in the chapters including: American Evangelical Protestants, Roman Catholics, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Su..

The book provides an original typology of religiously oriented parties that is a useful guide to understand their nature, their organisational models and, crucially, how they might impact on democracy and democratization in a number of different contexts across the world._x005F_x000D_ It was publish..

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religious camps have shaped their identities according to particular interpretations of their shared history. As such, any re-examination and revision of Irish h..

Drawing on archival material and ethnographic fieldwork with African American Spiritual Churches in the USA, this book examines how their spiritual and social work can shed light on the interplay between corporate activism and individual spirituality...

Focusing not on the youth activism of the Arab Spring, but on the death associated with it, this book examines martyrdom and commemoration as performative acts through which death and life are infused with meaning. Conversely, it shows how, in the making, remembering, and erasing of martyrs, hierarc..

Ingram journeys through over a century of history in the first full length examination of the charismatic leadership phenomenon in Islamist radicalism and militancy. Exhaustively researched and founded upon a suite of innovative multidisciplinary paradigms, this book features case studies of Hassan ..