Religious Minorities at Risk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

Religious Minorities at Risk

Cover -- Religious Minorities at Risk -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What are Deprivation, Discrimination, Inequality, and Grievances? -- 3 From Deprivation, Discrimination, and Inequality to Grievances -- 4 Religious Minorities, Mobilization, Protest, Conflict, and Violence in Theory -- 5 An Empirical Examination of the Grievances to Mobilization Model -- 6 Conclusions -- Appendix: Supplementary Analyses and Robustness Checks -- References -- Index.

Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 475

Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age

Christianity Today Book Award of Merit in Politics and Public Life (2024) How to heal America’s deep divisions by preserving religious liberty for all As our political and social landscapes polarize along party lines, religious liberty faces threats from both sides. From antidiscrimination commissions targeting conservative Christians to travel bans punishing Muslims, recent litigation has revealed the selective approach both left and right take when it comes to freedom of religion. But what if religious liberty can help cure our political division? Drawing on constitutional law, history, and sociology, Thomas C. Berg shows us how reaffirming religious freedom cultivates the good of indivi...

Religious Appeals in Power Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

Religious Appeals in Power Politics

Religious Appeals in Power Politics examines how states use, or attempt to use, confessional appeals to religious belief and conscience to advance political strategies and objectives. Through case studies of the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, Peter S. Henne demonstrates that religion, although not as high profile or well-funded a tool as economic sanctions or threats of military force, remains a potent weapon in international relations. Public policy analysis often minimizes the role of religion, favoring military or economic matters as the "important" arenas of policy debate. As Henne shows, however, at transformative moments in political history, states turn to faith-based appeal...

Teaching International Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Teaching International Relations

This comprehensive guide captures important trends in international relations (IR) pedagogy, paying particular attention to innovations in active learning and student engagement for the contemporary International Relations IR classroom.

Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Why Do People Discriminate Against Jews?

A novel analysis that combines traditional theories on anti-Semitism with evidence from 76 nations to explain the determinants that drive discrimination against Jews. Why Do People Discriminate against Jews? provides a data-rich analysis of the causes of discrimination against Jews across the globe. Using the tools of comparative political science, Jonathan Fox and Lev Topor examine the causes of both government-based and societal discrimination against Jews in 76 countries. As they stress, anti-Semitism is an attitude, but discrimination is an action. In examining anti-Jewish discrimination, they combine ideas and theories from classic studies of anti-Semitism with social science theories o...

The Oxford Handbook of International Security
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 785

The Oxford Handbook of International Security

This Oxford Handbook is the definitive volume on the state of international security and the academic field of security studies. It provides a tour of the most innovative and exciting news areas of research as well as major developments in established lines of inquiry. It presents a comprehensive portrait of an exciting field, with a distinctively forward-looking theme, focusing on the question: what does it mean to think about the future of international security? The key assumption underpinning this volume is that all scholarly claims about international security, both normative and positive, have implications for the future. By examining international security to extract implications for ...

Building World Order
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Building World Order

International relations theorist Amstutz describes how values and perspectives from Christianity can help advance a more humane global order. After highlighting key features of the nation-state and of global society, he illustrates the role of Christian values in international relations with case studies exploring three contemporary global problems—migration, development, and climate change. Amstutz contends that a Christian worldview, focused on the dignity and rights of the individual, as well as an emphasis on the common good, can contribute to peace, prosperity, and justice in the international community. The topic of global order is now more important than ever, given that the rules-b...

Promoting Religious Freedom in an Age of Intolerance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Promoting Religious Freedom in an Age of Intolerance

In an age of intolerance where religious persecution is widespread, Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan explores how societies can promote freedom of religion or belief as a fundamental right of citizens.

Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land

Scholars and popular authors regularly claim that Christianity, at least orthodox Christianity, has fostered oppression and intolerance. A common narrative is that liberty and equality have been advanced primarily when America’s leaders embrace progressive manifestations of religion or reject faith altogether. Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land demonstrates that Christianity is responsible for advancing liberty and equality for all citizens. Throughout American history, Christians have been motivated by their faith to create fair and just institutions, fight for political freedom, oppose slavery, and secure religious liberty for all. The New York Times’s 1619 Project is only a rece...

Exploring Religious Diversity and Covenantal Pluralism in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

Exploring Religious Diversity and Covenantal Pluralism in Asia

This book examines the growing diversity of religions and worldviews across South & Central Asia, and the factors affecting prospects for 'covenantal pluralism' in these regions. Going beyond banal appeals for mere 'tolerance', the theory of covenantal pluralism calls for a constitutional order of religious freedom and equal treatment combined with a culture of practical religious literacy and everyday virtues of engagement across lines of religious difference. According to the Pew Religious Diversity Index, half of the world’s most religiously diverse countries are in Asia. The presence of deep religious/worldview difference is often seen as a potential threat to socio-political cohesion ...