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PROJECT LEADERS
Thomas Farr
Thomas F. Farr is Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and a Visiting Associate...
Timothy Shah
Timothy Samuel Shah is Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center For Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and...
ASSOCIATE SCHOLARS
José Casanova
José Casanova is one of the world's top scholars in the sociology of religion. He is a professor at the Department of Sociology at Georgetown...
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she also has...
William Inboden
William Inboden is Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Distinguished Scholar at the Strauss Center for International...
David Novak
David Novak holds the J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies as Professor of the Study of Religion and Professor of Philosophy at the...
Daniel Philpott
Daniel Philpott is exploring Catholic and Protestant contributions to democracy from the years 1800-2000 for the Christianity and Freedom Project....
Mona Siddiqui
Mona Siddiqui, OBE is Professor of Islamic and Inter-religious Studies and Assistant Principal for Religion and Society at the University of...
Monica Duffy Toft
Monica Duffy Toft is Associate Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and Director of the Initiative on Religion in...
Roger Trigg
Roger Trigg, of St Cross College, Oxford, is Senior Research Fellow in the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford, and a member of both the...
PROJECT STAFF
A.J. Nolte
A.J. Nolte joined the RFP at the beginning of October 2012, after two years as a research assistant at the Center for Complex Operations, National...
Kyle Vander Meulen
Kyle Vander Meulen joined the Berkley Center in January 2011. Before coming to the Center, he completed his master's studies in Divinity at the...
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics
Timothy Shah, Daniel Philpott, Monica Duffy Toft
2011
Co-authored by Monica Duffy Toft, Daniel Philpott, and Timothy Samuel Shah, God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics examines the political influence of religion around the world. The authors consider issues ranging from technology, globalization, democratization, and peacebuilding to civil war and terrorism, using case studies to illustrate and support their analysis. The book also offers suggestions for addressing the challenges and opportunities created by resurgent religion. The book was supported by the work of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs's Initiative on Religion and International Affairs, supported by the Luce Foundation.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: The Twenty-First Century as God's Century
Chapter Two: Behind the Politics of Religion
Chapter Three: The Rise of Politically Assertive Religion
Chapter Four: Religion and Global Democratization
Chapter Five: The "Glocal" Dimensions of Religious Terrorism
Chapter Six: Religious Civil Wars: Nasty, Brutish, and Long
Chapter Seven: Militants for Peace and Justice
Chapter Eight: The Rules for Surviving God's Century