Religion and politics in the international system today /

Hanson, Eric O.

Religion and politics in the international system today / Eric O. Hanson. - Cambridge [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,2006 2006. - ix, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

distributer: Al-Ahram

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: the view from Silicon Valley -- Religion and politics in the new global paradigm -- A new paradigm for world politics? -- A political perspective on religion and politics -- A religious perspective on religion and politics -- The religions of the book, meditative experience, and public life -- Religion in contemporary world politics -- The west : Christianity, secularization, and immigration -- East Asia : modernization and ideology -- South and central Asia : the legacies of Gandhi and Khomeini and the bomb -- The Middle East and North Africa : Jewish and Islamic politics -- Latin America : indigenous religions, Christianity, and globalization -- Religion and politics for the next millennium -- Appendix I: Thirty years of Nobel Peace prize winners, 1975-2004 -- Appendix II: Paradigm chart and category questions.

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0521852455 (hardback) 0521617812 (pbk.) 9780521852456 9780521617819

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Religion and politics.

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