Religion and Politics in the International System Today
As an expert on Chinese political culture, author of a book on Catholicism in global politics, and erstwhile Jesuit, Eric Hanson has written a book on religion and politics in the international system which will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners. Full of examples and even juicy deta...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2009, Volume: 70, Issue: 1, Pages: 90-91 |
Review of: | Religion and politics in the international system today (Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006) (Freston, Paul)
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Summary: | As an expert on Chinese political culture, author of a book on Catholicism in global politics, and erstwhile Jesuit, Eric Hanson has written a book on religion and politics in the international system which will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners. Full of examples and even juicy details, this is a work over which the Iraq dêbacle casts a shadow and provides ample justification for more such studies., But Hanson's purpose is larger: to understand the post-Cold War relationship of religion and politics worldwide, and how that relationship interacts with the economic, military, and communications (EMC) systems. We lack, he says, a theory to complement analyses limited to a single religion or region, and he wonders whether one is possible. |
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ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srp005 |