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  • The World's Religions in Figures

    An Introduction to International Religious Demography

    by Todd M. Johnson, Brian J. Grim ...
    Created by two of the field’s leading experts, this unique introduction to international religious demography outlines the challenges in interpreting data on religious adherence, and presents a contemporary portrait of global religious belief.Offers the first comprehensive overview of the field of international religious demography – detailing what we know about religious adherents around the ... Read more

    $98.00 USD

  • The Price of Freedom Denied

    Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

    by Brian J. Grim, Roger Finke ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

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  • God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics

    by Monica Duffy Toft,Daniel Philpott,Timothy Samuel Shah ...
    A fresh and illuminating perspective on the surge in religion"s political influence across the globe. Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has resurged in political influence across the globe, helped by the very forces that were supposed to bury it: democracy, globalization, and technology. And despite ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Hate Spin

    The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat to Democracy

    by Cherian George ...
    Series series Information Policy
    How right-wing political entrepreneurs around the world use religious offense—both given and taken—to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents.In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream politics. In Indonesia, Muslim absolutists urge suppression of churches and minority sects, fostering a ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond

    Edited by Paul Bramadat, Lorne Dawson ...
    After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the “Toronto 18,” Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security. As governments respond to the potential threat of homegrown radicalism, many observers have become concerned about the impact of those security measures on the minority groups whose lives are “securitized.”In Religious ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Nonviolent Struggle

    Theories, Strategies, and Dynamics

    by Sharon Erickson Nepstad ...
    From Gandhi's movement to win Indian independence to the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, an expanding number of citizens have used nonviolent action to win political goals. While such events have captured the public imagination, they have also generated a new surge of scholarly interest in the field of nonviolence and civil resistance studies. Although researchers have produced new empirical data, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Sacred and Secular

    Religion and Politics Worldwide

    by Pippa Norris, Ronald Inglehart ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Worldviews of Aspiring Powers

    Domestic Foreign Policy Debates in China, India, Iran, Japan, and Russia

    Edited by Henry R. Nau, Deepa M. Ollapally ...
    Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the US's has waned: China, Japan, India, Russia and Iran. Featuring a leading regional scholar for each essay, each essay identifies the most important domestic schools of thought--nationalists, realists, globalists, idealists/exceptionalists--and ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Zionist Israel and Apartheid South Africa

    Civil society and peace building in ethnic-national states

    by Amneh Badran ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
    This book is a comparison of two ethnic-national "apartheid" states – South Africa and Israel – which have been in conflict, and how internal dissent has developed. In particular it examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful movements have not emerged in Israel.The book reveals patterns of behaviour shared by groups in both ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Beyond Religious Freedom

    The New Global Politics of Religion

    by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd ...
    In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives. Policymakers have rallied around the notion that the fostering of religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance, and protections for religious minorities are the keys to combating persecution and discrimination. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization Challenged

    Conviction, Conflict, Community

    by George Rupp ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism.According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. While he acknowledges the threat of "resurgent ... Read more

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  • Religion, Community and Development

    Changing Contours of Politics and Policy in India

    Edited by Gurpreet Mahajan, Surinder S. Jodhka ...
    Series series Religion and Citizenship
    By making religious community a relevant category for discussing development deficit, the Sachar Committee Report (that was submitted to the Prime Minister of India in 2007) initiated a new political discourse in India. While the liberal secular framework privileged the individual over the community and was more inclined to use the category of class rather than the identity of religion, the Sachar ... Read more

    $70.99 USD