Holy Wars and Holy Alliance : : The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage / / Manlio Graziano.

Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics. At...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 28
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Modernity and Religion
  • 1. The Death of God
  • 2. The Return of God
  • 3. God's Revenge
  • Part II. The Resacralization of Politics in the 1970s
  • 4. Religion and Power in the 1970s
  • 5. The Islamization of the Iranian Revolution
  • 6. The Geopolitical Reinvention of the Holy War
  • 7. The Catholicization of Modernity
  • Part III. The Holy War
  • 8. The Clash of Civilizations
  • 9. The Clash of Ignorance
  • 10. The Bloody Borders of Religion
  • 11. Terrorism
  • Part IV. The Holy Alliance
  • 12. Dialogue Among Civilizations
  • 13. The Catholic Alliance
  • 14. The Holy Alliance
  • 15. All Roads Lead to Rome
  • Conclusion: Religion and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index