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In Religion and the Global Politics of Human Rights, editors Thomas Banchoff and Robert Wuthnow bring together leading scholars to explore the religious politics of human rights across the world's major regions, political systems, and faith traditions. Contributors like Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Alfred Stepan, Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, and Robert W. Hefner probe whether human rights are universal or…

This book explores how globalization has transformed the relationship between religious communities and contemporary policy challenges. Communications technologies have enabled the formation of stronger transnational religious identities, while the emergence of a global human rights regime has created more space for religious engagement across multiple issue areas. The volume brings together…