Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics
Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs. Religious Pluralism, Globalization and World Politics, an incisive new collection of essays, explores the patterns of cooperation and conflict that mark this new religious pluralism. Shifting religious identities have encouraged interreligious dialogue and greater political engagement around global challenges including international development, conflict resolution, transitional justice, and bioethics. At the same time, interreligious competition has contributed to political conflict and running controversy over the meaning and scope of religious freedom. In this volume, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines examine how the forces of religious pluralism and globalization are playing out on the world stage.
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Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics
Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs. Religious Pluralism, Globalization and World Politics, an incisive new collection of essays, explores the patterns of cooperation and conflict that mark this new religious pluralism. Shifting religious identities have encouraged interreligious dialogue and greater political engagement around global challenges including international development, conflict resolution, transitional justice, and bioethics. At the same time, interreligious competition has contributed to political conflict and running controversy over the meaning and scope of religious freedom. In this volume, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines examine how the forces of religious pluralism and globalization are playing out on the world stage.
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Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics

Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics

by Thomas Banchoff (Editor)
Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics

Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics

by Thomas Banchoff (Editor)

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Globalization has spawned more active transnational religious communities, creating a powerful force in world affairs. Religious Pluralism, Globalization and World Politics, an incisive new collection of essays, explores the patterns of cooperation and conflict that mark this new religious pluralism. Shifting religious identities have encouraged interreligious dialogue and greater political engagement around global challenges including international development, conflict resolution, transitional justice, and bioethics. At the same time, interreligious competition has contributed to political conflict and running controversy over the meaning and scope of religious freedom. In this volume, leading scholars from a variety of disciplines examine how the forces of religious pluralism and globalization are playing out on the world stage.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780195323405
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 11/26/2008
Pages: 360
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Thomas Banchoff is Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He is the author of The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy (1999) and Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity (1999).

Table of Contents

Contributors ix

1 Introduction: Religious Pluralism in World Affairs Thomas Banchoff 3

Part I Challenges of Religious Pluralism in a Global Era

2 Causes of Quarrel: What's Special about Religious Disputes? Kwame Anthony Appiah 41

3 On the Possibility of Religious Pluralism Pratap Bhanu Mehta 65

4 Toleration, Proselytizing, and the Politics of Recognition Jean Bethke Elshtain 89

5 The Rights and Limits of Proselytism in the New Religious World Order John Witte Jr. 105

Part II Religious Actors in World Politics

6 Building Sustainable Peace: The Roles of Local and Transnational Religious Actors R. Scott Appleby 125

7 Religious Actors and Transitional Justice Leslie Vinjamuri Aaron P. Boesenecker 155

8 Religion and Global Development: Intersecting Paths Katherine Marshall 195

9 Peaceful Movements in the Muslim World Thomas Michel, S. J. 229

10 Trans-state Muslim Movements and Militant Extremists in an Era of Soft Power John O. Voll 253

11 Religious Pluralism and the Politics of a Global Cloning Ban Thomas Banchoff 275

12 U.S. Foreign Policy and Global Religious Pluralism Elizabeth H. Prodromou 297

Index 325

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