World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Freedom Is Vital to American National Security
Farr's 2008 book World of Faith and Freedom makes three basic points. First, religious freedom is still shackled in the paradigmatic prison of international relations and the bureaucratic culture at the U.S. Department of State, unwanted and un-integrated into international relations theory and...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 3, Pages: 535-536 |
| Review of: | World of faith and freedom (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2008) (Seiple, Chris)
World of faith and freedom (New York, N.Y. [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2008) (Seiple, Chris) |
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| Summary: | Farr's 2008 book World of Faith and Freedom makes three basic points. First, religious freedom is still shackled in the paradigmatic prison of international relations and the bureaucratic culture at the U.S. Department of State, unwanted and un-integrated into international relations theory and U.S. foreign policy. Second, properly understood, the promotion of religious freedom should be an integral part of national security that could “create the conditions for durable democracy [and] carry the fight against religion-based terrorism” (158). Third, because “democracy promotion cannot succeed without taking into account religion as a driver of culture” (91), the “whole of the U.S. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp086 |