RT Book T1 Rethinking religion and world affairs A2 Shah, Timothy Samuel 1970- LA English PP New York PB Oxford University Press YR 2011 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1652320164 AB In recent years, the role of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has become increasingly important. The essays in this volume seek to question and remedy the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship, grappling with puzzles, issues, and questions concerning religion and world affairs in six major areas. Contributors critically revisit the "secularization thesis," which proclaimed the steady erosion of religion's public presence as an effect of modernization; explore the relationship between religion, democracy, and the juridico-political discourse o NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN BL65.I55 SN 978-0-19-982798-5 K1 Religion and international relations K1 Electronic books K1 Aufsatzsammlung