Religion and Politics

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This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion andpolitics, and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject’s most significantdebates, issues and methodologies.It begins by asking the basic questions of how social scientists see religion and why religionremains relevant to politics in the modern era. Fox examines the influence of religious identity,beliefs, institutions, and legitimacy on politics, and surveys important approaches and issues foundin the literature on religion and politics. Four new chapters on religious policy around the world,political secularism, and religious freedom and human rights have been added to fully revisedcontent covering religious identity, rational choice approaches to religious politics, worldviews,beliefs, doctrines, ideologies, institutions, and political mobilization, fundamentalism, secularization,and religion and conflict.This work will be essential reading for all students of religion and politics, comparative politics,international relations, and security studies.