Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective: The One, the Few, and the Many
By Dr. Ted Gerard Jelen, Dr. Clyde Wilcox, eds.
With a chapter by Dr. Paul Manuel
Cambridge University Press, 2002
From Cambridge University Press:
"Religion is resurgent across the globe. In many countries religion is a powerful source of political mobilization, and in some a potent social cleavage. In some religion reinforces the state, in others it provides the space for resistance. This book contains a series of detailed studies examining religion and politics in specific countries or regions. The cases include countries with one dominant religious tradition, and others with two or more competing traditions. They include Catholicism, Protestantism, Islam, Hinduism, Shinto and Buddhism. They include states where religion and politics are closely linked, and others with at least a low wall of separation between church and state. The cases are organized by the type of religious marketplace, but allow many other comparisons as well. We develop some generalizations from the cases, and hope that they will be a fertile source of theorizing for others."
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
1. Religion: The One, the Few, and the Many
Ted G. Jelen and Clyde Wilcox
2. The Challenge of Pluralism: The Catholic Church in Democratic Poland
Timothy A. Byrnes
3. Catholicism, Politics, and Culture in the Republic of Ireland
Michele Dillon
4. Religion and Politics in Iberia: Clericalism, Anti-Clericalism and Democratization in Portugal and Spain
Paul Christopher Manuel
5. The Religious Dimension of Israeli Political Life
Kenneth D. Wald
6. Between Heaven and Earth: The Dilemma of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Sussan Siavoshi
7. Islamism in Contemporary Arab Politics: Lessons in Authoritarianism and Democratization
Mehran Tamadonfar
8. Religion and Politics in a Secular Europe: Cutting Against the Grain
J. Christopher Soper and Joel Fetzer
9. Religion and Democracy in South America: Challenges and Opportunities
Anthony Gill
10. Looking for Hope in Central America: The Pentecostal Movement
Anne Motley Hallum
11. Religion and Politics in India: The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)
Sunil K. Sahu
12. Religion and Politics in Japan
Maria Toyoda and Aiji Tanaka
13. Religion and Politics in an Open Market: Religious Mobilization in the United States
Clyde Wilcox and Ted G. Jelen
14. Conclusion: The Political Roles of Religion
Ted G. Jelen and Clyde Wilcox