Description
As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance. This handbook responds to that development, providing important results of current research involving religion and politics, focusing on: democratisation, democracy, party platform formation, party moderation and secularisation, social constituency representation and interest articulation.
Covering core issues, new debates, and country case studies, the handbook provides a comprehensive overview of fundamentals and new directions in the subject. Adopting a comparative approach, it examines the relationships between religion and political parties in a variety of contexts, regions and countries with a focus on Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Hinduism. Contributions cover such topics as:
- religion, secularisation and modernisation;
- religious fundamentalism and terrorism;
- the role of religion in conflict resolution and peacebuilding;
- religion and its connection to state, democratisation and democracy; and
- regional case studies covering Asia, the Americas, Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa.
This comprehensive handbook provides crucial information for students, researchers and professionals researching the topics of politics, religion, comparative politics, secularism, religious movements, political parties and interest groups, and religion and sociology.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Jeffrey Haynes
PART I Core issues and topics
1 The next Middle Ages: religion and political culture
Manlio Graziano
2 Religion, state and nation: Islamic parties between ideology and religion
Jocelyne Cesari
3 Religion and society
David Herbert
4 Religion, modernisation and secularisation
Steven Kettell
PART II New debates
5 Religious fundamentalism
Luca Ozzano
6 Religion, democratisation and democracy
Jeffrey Haynes
7 Religion and party platform formation
Esen Kirdis
8 Religion, social constituency representation and interest articulation
Nil S. Satana, Alperen Özkan and Jóhanna K. Birnir
9 The politics of being Muslim and female: religion, feminism and hierarchies of knowledge
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
10 Religious violence and political parties
Mark Juergensmeyer
11 Conflict resolution and peacebuilding
Christine Schliesser
PART III Country case studies
Asia
12 Religious violence and political agenda setting in post-colonial South Asian states: why political parties fail
Subrata K. Mitra and La Toya Waha
13 Political parties and religion in Myanmar
Kristian Stokke
14 Religious political parties in Pakistan
Muqarrab Akbar
The Americas
15 Religion and political parties in America
Allen D. Hertzke
16 Religion and political parties in Brazil
Linsey Moddelmog and Pedro A.G. dos Santos
17 Religion and political parties in Mexico
Luis Felipe Mantilla
Europe
18 The Politics of Religion in Germany, 1945 to the present
Sabrina P. Ramet
19 Religion and political parties: the case of Italy
Alberta Giorgi
20 Religion and political parties in Poland
Katarzyna Dos´piaﾅ�-Borysiak
Sub-Saharan Africa
21 Old and new alliances: Christian churches and the African National Congress in South Africa
Barbara Bompani
22 Religion and political parties in Zambia
Austin Cheyeka
23 Religions and political parties in Senegal (1980窶�2018)
El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo
24 Nigeria
Toyin Falola and Chukwuemeka Agbo
The Middle East and North Africa
25 Israel: political parties
Hayim Katsman and Guy Ben-Porat
26 Religion and politics in Palestine: the case of Hamas
Benedetta Berti
27 Turkey: the contested role of Islam and pro-Islamic parties
Sultan Tepe
28 Islam and factional politics in Iran
Paola Rivetti
29 Religion and political parties in Tunisia
Francesco Cavatorta and Fabio Merone
30 Moroccan constitutional reform and Islamism(s): renegotiating the role of religion in the political field
Emanuela Dalmasso
31 Egypt
Sumita Pahwa
