Jonathan Fox
Jonathan Fox (Ph.D. University of Maryland, 1997) is the Yehuda Avener Professor of Religion and Politics. He specializes in the influence of religion on a wide variety of political and social phenomena including government religion policy, religious minorities, conflict, and international relations. He is the author of editor of ten books on these topics and over ninety articles and nook chapters.
Currently he is focusing on the issue of government religion policy as part of the Religion and State (RAS) project. (www.religionandstate.org) The RAS project collects data on government religion policy in over 180 countries around the world and has produced numerous articles and three books, most recently Political Secularism, Religion and the State: A Time Series Analysis of Worldwide Data (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Unfree Exercise of Religion: A World Survey of Discrimination against Religious Minorities (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
His other recent books include Religion in International Relations Theory: Interactions & Possibilities (Routledge, 2013, with Nukhet Sandal) and An Introduction to Religion and Politics: Theory & Practice (Routledge, 2013).
Currently he is focusing on the issue of government religion policy as part of the Religion and State (RAS) project. (www.religionandstate.org) The RAS project collects data on government religion policy in over 180 countries around the world and has produced numerous articles and three books, most recently Political Secularism, Religion and the State: A Time Series Analysis of Worldwide Data (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Unfree Exercise of Religion: A World Survey of Discrimination against Religious Minorities (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
His other recent books include Religion in International Relations Theory: Interactions & Possibilities (Routledge, 2013, with Nukhet Sandal) and An Introduction to Religion and Politics: Theory & Practice (Routledge, 2013).
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Offers the most complete coverage of how states deal with religion of any book on the market
Includes an analysis of each of the 111 specific types of policies included in the study
Introduces a new perspective for understanding religion and politics: the secular-religious competition perspective
Despite all this attention, it is challenging to situate religion within a discipline which has been dominantly secular from its inception. Only a few existent works have ventured to integrate religion into core international relations theories such as Classical Realism, Neorealism, Neoliberalism, Constructivism and the English school. This work is the first systematic attempt to comparatively assess the place of religion in the aforementioned theoretical strands of international relations with contemporary examples from around the world.
Written in an accessible and systematic fashion, this book will be an important addition to the fields of both religion and international relations.
Topics covered include:
Secularism and secularization
Religious identity
Religious worldviews, beliefs, doctrines and theologies
Religious legitimacy
Religious institutions and mobilization
Rational and functional religion
Religious fundamentalism
Conflict, violence and terror
This work combines theoretical analysis with data on the religion policies of 177 governments, showing that while most of the world's government support religion and many restrict it; true neutrality on the issue of religion is extremely rare. Religion is becoming an inescapable issue in politics.
This work will be essential reading for all students of religion and politics, and will also be of great interest to those studying related subjects such as comparative politics, international relations and war and conflict studies.
Each of these leading authors addresses different aspects of these questions in different contexts providing a diverse and multifaceted view of the topic.
Susanna Pearce and Tanja Ellingsen examine the religious causes of conflict on the macro-level. Several of the contributors focus on specific conflicts. The Gaurav Ghose and Patrick James examine the Kashmir conflict from the Pakistani perspective and Carolyn James and Ozgur. Ozdamar examine it from the Indian perspective. Similarly Hillel Frisch examines the Palestinian-ISraeli conflict from the Palestinian perspective and Jonathan Rynhold examines it from the Israeli perspective. Finally, two of the authors examine other important issues. Stuart Cohen examines the evolution of the religious view of war in the Jewish tradition and Yehudit Auerbach examines whether can play a role in conflict resolution and reconciliation. These assessments deliver fascinating conclusions.
This book was previously published as a Special Issue of Terrorism and Violence.