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Indonesia
influences, and a largely secular, democratic government that holds monotheism as one of its governing principles. Indonesia was long dominated by Indian Dharmic...
influences, and a largely secular, democratic government that holds monotheism as one of its governing principles. Indonesia was long dominated by Indian Dharmic...
IslamIslam is a religious tradition stressing submission to God according to the revelations to the prophet Muhammad (570/571-632 CE), whom Muslims hold to be the last in a line...
Religion in China and the United States 中美宗教 The last three decades have seen a steady improvement in US-China relations, but religion remains a difficult issue. This bilingual website illuminates differences rooted...
Afghanistan
Afghan society and politics are simultaneously united by Islam – one of the few agents of social cohesion in a land split along ethnic and tribal lines – and threatened by...
Afghan society and politics are simultaneously united by Islam – one of the few agents of social cohesion in a land split along ethnic and tribal lines – and threatened by...
Argentina
The society, culture, and politics of Argentina are deeply imbued with Roman Catholicism. The Church’s place in Argentine national identity, which spans across the...
The society, culture, and politics of Argentina are deeply imbued with Roman Catholicism. The Church’s place in Argentine national identity, which spans across the...
Egypt
The intersection of religion and politics in Egypt has been characterized by both gradual change and revolutionary rupture. Islam arrived in the 7th century CE, and Egypt...
The intersection of religion and politics in Egypt has been characterized by both gradual change and revolutionary rupture. Islam arrived in the 7th century CE, and Egypt...
India
Religion has consistently played an important and contentious role in Indian politics and society. The country has a long history of religious diversity; it has given rise...
Religion has consistently played an important and contentious role in Indian politics and society. The country has a long history of religious diversity; it has given rise...
Iran
The tight link between politics and Shi'a Islam that characterizes contemporary Iran is the product of a long and often contentious history. Islam came to Iran, the...
The tight link between politics and Shi'a Islam that characterizes contemporary Iran is the product of a long and often contentious history. Islam came to Iran, the...
Iraq
Over its long history, Iraq has been both a center of cosmopolitan civilization and a site of sectarian conflict. Baghdad was the intellectual capital of the Muslim world...
Over its long history, Iraq has been both a center of cosmopolitan civilization and a site of sectarian conflict. Baghdad was the intellectual capital of the Muslim world...
Nigeria
The tension between Nigeria’s Muslim-majority North and its Christian-majority South fuels periodic sectarian conflicts and informs the government’s attempts to balance...
The tension between Nigeria’s Muslim-majority North and its Christian-majority South fuels periodic sectarian conflicts and informs the government’s attempts to balance...
Pakistan
The often-troubled relationship between religion and politics in Pakistan is the product of a complex history. Islam arrived in the Indian Subcontinent in the 8th century,...
The often-troubled relationship between religion and politics in Pakistan is the product of a complex history. Islam arrived in the Indian Subcontinent in the 8th century,...
Russia
Religion in Russia has undergone a revitalization since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Russian Orthodox Church developed symbiotically with the emergent Russian...
Religion in Russia has undergone a revitalization since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The Russian Orthodox Church developed symbiotically with the emergent Russian...
Saudi Arabia
The royal family of Saudi Arabia charges itself with the protection of the two holiest cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina, and the propagation of the Wahhabi school of Sunni...
The royal family of Saudi Arabia charges itself with the protection of the two holiest cities of Islam, Mecca and Medina, and the propagation of the Wahhabi school of Sunni...
Turkey
Turkey is a Muslim-majority country with a secular state and a rich religious history. Islam arrived with the Seljuk Turks in the 11th century, and its influence deepened...
Turkey is a Muslim-majority country with a secular state and a rich religious history. Islam arrived with the Seljuk Turks in the 11th century, and its influence deepened...
United States
The United States is a secular democracy with a culture rooted in its majority Christian tradition. Religious dissidents from Europe, particularly Puritans from England,...
The United States is a secular democracy with a culture rooted in its majority Christian tradition. Religious dissidents from Europe, particularly Puritans from England,...
China
China has a long tradition of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, which have undergone a revival due to many of the government’s restrictions on religious practice having...
China has a long tradition of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism, which have undergone a revival due to many of the government’s restrictions on religious practice having...
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South and Central Asia
Engaged in a global mapping of faith-inspired organizations in development work, in January 2011 the Berkley Center and the World Faiths Development Dialogue convened...
Religion and Politics in the US
This bilingual collection features key quotes on religion from past and contemporary American presidents. It also offers information about different government agencies...
This bilingual collection features key quotes on religion from past and contemporary American presidents. It also offers information about different government agencies...
Chinese Leaders on Religion
This bilingual collection features key quotes on religion from past and contemporary Chinese leaders.
该双语信息集汇总了中国前任和现任领导人对宗教的重要论述。
This bilingual collection features key quotes on religion from past and contemporary Chinese leaders.
该双语信息集汇总了中国前任和现任领导人对宗教的重要论述。
Chinese Religious Organizations
This bilingual collection highlights the key Chinese religious organizations that officially represent the Christian and Islamic faith communities in China.
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This bilingual collection highlights the key Chinese religious organizations that officially represent the Christian and Islamic faith communities in China.
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US Faith-Based Organizations
This bilingual website features major US-based faith-inspired organizations. Their work in social service and international development often means they serve as de facto...
This bilingual website features major US-based faith-inspired organizations. Their work in social service and international development often means they serve as de facto...
US Religious Communities
This bilingual collection highlights major US-based Christian and Jewish religious communities and the organizations through which they offer a cooperative voice on...
This bilingual collection highlights major US-based Christian and Jewish religious communities and the organizations through which they offer a cooperative voice on...
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Thomas F. Farr
The United States is a religious nation, but neither scholars of U.S. foreign policy nor its practitioners have taken religion very seriously. From the inception of international relations as a discrete discipline, its approach has been defined by the seventeenth-century Westphalian subordination of religion to the state. Consequently, as the international relations scholar Daniel Philpott has observed, most in the field have simply "assumed the absence of religion among the factors that influence states."
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Thomas F. Farr is Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at Georgetown’s Edmund A....