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Why do democracies avoid fighting each other This book examines research and speculation on the subject and tests this against the history of relations between democracies over two centuries. It concludes that constitutional democracies have a 'contracting advantage' - a unique ability to settle conflicts with each other by durable agreements.

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This book examines the deployment of religious soft power in African states to influence international relations as well as the role and perception of politics for African people. The book analyzes how religion has been used as an instrument of persuasion and influence in a cross-disciplinary study of political science and religious studies.

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Entitled Elite Perspectives, it consists of seven articles with a common theme: the impact of religion on the political behavior of elite members of society, including journalists, lobbyists, public officials, political contributors, and clergy.

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Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, has hosted six conferences for national journalists to help raise the level of their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion, religious communities, and the religious convictions. This book contains the presentations and conversations that grew out of those conferences.

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Looking at the two most important Catholic lay movements, Liberation Theology and Christian Democracy, Lynch uses Nicaragua and Venezuela as case studies of how religious philosophy has fared when vested with political power.

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A comprehensive anthology of texts to do justice to modern Iranian political thought, containing many crucially important texts in English. This work emphasises on questions of gender and Sufism in Iran. Covering the last hundred years of Iranian history, this book introduces some of the most crucial political and religious texts of the period.

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A comprehensive anthology of texts to do justice to modern Iranian political thought, containing many crucially important texts in English. This work emphasises on questions of gender and Sufism in Iran. Covering the last 100 years of Iranian history, this book introduces some of the most crucial political and religious texts of the period.

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Religion and Politics in the United States has been fully updated with material from current scholarship to cover recent American politics and elections. Using an evidenced-based, social-scientific approach to religion, this text shows how religion plays a fascinating and crucial part in our nation's political process and in our culture at large.

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In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. -- .

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In this authoritative book, a number of eminent and respected figures in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology and political activism set out their vision for a society in which the competing truths must be accommodated not peacefully but without violence. -- .

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Drawing on research for a dissertation he began before September 2001, Al-Khattar explores religion, terrorism, and the relationship between them; views by leaders of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the US.

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This timely and authoritative resource combines both topical and country-by-country coverage to help readers understand the coexistence of church and state in nations around the world today.

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This book explores the often controversial topic of how religion ought to relate to American public life. The sixteen distinguished contributors, both Jewish and Christian, reflect on the topic out of their own disciplines-which include social ethics, political theory, philosophy, law, history, theology, and sociology.

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An examination of the relationships between religion and domestic public policy in America. It explores the arguments of William Jennings Bryan, John Ryan, Reinhold Niebuhr, and those of the influential African American Protestant and Jewish leaders.

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Religion, History, and Politics in Nigeria is concerned with the problematic nature of religion and politics in Nigerian history. The book provides a lively and straightforward treatment of the relationship among religion, politics, and history in Nigeria, and how it affects public life today.

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Scholarship on the role of religion in American public life has taken on a new urgency in the increasingly contentious wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. This volume brings together an impressive group of scholars to build on past work and broaden the scope of this cru...

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The role that race and religion play in American presidential elections is attracting national attention like never before. The 2008 presidential candidates reached out to an unprecedented number of racial and religious voting constituencies, including African Americans, Latin...

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This book describes how the United States can integrate religious considerations into its foreign policy, moving towards a new leadership paradigm that effectively counters the challenge of Islamist extremism.

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This volume investigates the causes of the political, economic, and moral problems of today's Africa and provides a framework for the reconstruction of modern African states.

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Explains why the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) had to undergo a major metamorphosis in order to win approval. This book uses this episode as a window onto the dynamics of modern constitutional politics, specifically the constitutional politics of free exercise.

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Using a key religious freedom Act, this book analyzes legislative process, Supreme Court jurisprudence, and discusses the role of religion in public life. It explains why the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) had to undergo a major metamorphosis in order to win approval.

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Examines the impact of churches and church membership on third parties and independent candidates in the United States.

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Noted religious liberty expert Vincent Philip Munoz provides carefully edited excerpts from 75 of the most important Supreme Court religious liberty cases.