Rethinking Religion and World Affairs

Timothy Shah, Alfred Stepan, Monica Duffy Toft

2012

Too often steeped in a secularist mindset, academics, policy makers, and opinion shapers have only just begun to reckon with the varied impact of religion on global politics, society, media, gender issues, diplomacy, and economic development. Rethinking Religion and World Affairs documents how scholars, policy professionals, and journalists are now grappling with global religious dynamics and influences. Edited by Timothy Shah, Alfred Stepan, and Monica Duffy Toft, the book includes sections on how religion intersects with secularization, democracy and human rights, conflict and peacemaking, humanitarianism, the media, and American foreign policy.

Table of Contents
    Editors' Introduction: Religion and World Affairs: Blurring the Boundaries -        Timothy Samuel Shah, Alfred Stepan, and Monica Duffy Toft
Part 1: Religion, Secularism, and Secularization
    1. Why Religion? Why Now? - J. Bryan Hehir
    2. Rethinking Public Religions - José Casanova
    3. The Politics of Secularism - Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Part 2: Religion, Democracy, and Human Rights
    4. Religion, Democracy, and the "Twin Tolerations": Reconciling Political        Freedom and Religious Autonomy - Alfred Stepan
    5. How Should States Deal with Deep Religious Diversity: Can Anything Be        Learnt from the Indian Model of Secularism? - Rajeev Bhargava
    6. Rethinking Islam and Democracy - Robert W. Hefner
    7. Religious Freedom, Democracy, and International Human Rights - John     Witte, Jr. and M. Christian Green
Part 3: Religion, Conflict, and Peacemaking
    8. Religion, Terrorism, and Civil Wars - Monica Duffy Toft
    9. What Religion Contributes to the Politics of Transitional Justice - Daniel        Philpott
Part 4: Religion, Humanitarianism, and Civil Society
    10. Where Is the Religion? Humanitarianism, Faith, and World Affairs -        Michael Barnett
    11. Faith, Gender, and International Relations - Katherine Marshall
    12. Religion and Development - Katherine Marshall
    13. Interreligious Dialogue and International Relations - Thomas Banchoff
Part 5: Religion and the Media
    14. Islam and the Promenades of Global Media - Mehrzad Boroujerdi and        Nichole J. Allem
    15. Old Monks, New Media, and the Limits of Soulcraft: A Case Study of        Burma's 2007 Saffron Revolution - Diane Winston
Part 6: Religion and American Foreign Policy
    16. God's Country? American Evangelicals and US Foreign Policy - Walter        Russell Mead
    17. America's International Religious Freedom Policy - Thomas F. Farr
    18. Navigating in the Fog: Improving US Government Engagement with        Religion - Frederick D. Barton, Shannon Hayden, and Karin von Hippel

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