Jeffrey Haynes

Religion in Global Politics (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

The author examines the continuing importance of religion, in global politics using examples drawn from a range of religious groups around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317886679
• Artikelnr.: 42117302

Autorenporträt

Jeff Haynes

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments. 1. INTRODUCTION; RELIGION AND POLITICS DEFINED; Church and the state in comparative perspective
Explaining religious deprivatization. Conclusion. 2. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: BUCKING THE TREND OF WESTERN SECULARISATION; Civil religion and church-state relations
Religious pluralism and politics
Secularisation and politics in America
The New Christian Right
US Catholicism: from private to public denomination
the Nation of Islam
Conclusion. 3. LATIN AMERICA: Catholic hegemony under attack
Catholic church-state relations
The Medellin conference and the popular church
Base Christian communities
Ideological conflict in the Catholic Church in the 1980s
The evangelical Protestant challenge
Protestants and politics
Conclusion. 4. WESTERN EUROPE: SECULARISATION AND THE RELIGIOUS RESPONSE; Church-sate relations
Churches and secularisation
Case studies
Resisting secularisation: religion and politics in Northern Ireland and among Muslims in Western Europe
Conclusion. 5. EASTERN EUROPE: FROM COMMUNISM TO BELIEF; Church and state during the communist era
Religion and naitonalism in the USSR's satellites
Churches and oppostition in Poland
East Germany and Russia
Conclusion. 6. AFRICA: RELIGIOUS COMPETITION AND STATE POWER; Religion and politics during the colonial era
Church-state relaitons: 1960s to 1980s
Religion and democratic change
National Muslim organisations and political change
Conclusion. 7. THE MIDDLE-EAST: RELIGIONS IN COLLISION; Islam and Judaism in political perspective
Religion and politics in Israel
Islamist movements in Egypt
Algeria and Turkey
Conclusion. 8. CENTRAL ASIA: THE RETURN OF ISLAM TO POLITICS AFTER COMMUNISM; Islam in Central Asia: the impact of the 1917 revolution
Political Islam in Central Asia after the USSR
Case Studies: political Islam in Central Asia
Conclusion. 9. POLITICS AND RELIGION IN INDIA; Hindu and Sikh nationalism; What is Hinduism?
Hindus and politics in premodern India
Hinduism and nationalism
Hindu nationalism and politics in the 1980s and 1990s
The genesis and appeal of Hindu nationalism
Sikhs and politics
Conclusion. 10. BUDDHISM AND POLITICS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA; The essentials of Buddhism
Therevada Buddhism in South-east Asia
Case studies: Thailand
Burma and Cambodia
Conclusion. 11. CONCLUSIONS; Postmodernism and the sociopolitical salience of religion
The complexities of secularisation in the postmodern world
Religious resistance to secularisation.