Religion, international relations and development cooperation / edited by Berma Klein Goldewijk.

• TeilnehmendeR: Goldewijk, Berma Klein.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (356 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents; Preface ; Agnes van Ardenne ; Foreword; Senator Jos J.A.M. van Gennip; Introduction; Resurgence of Religion, International Relations and Development Cooperation: Main Challenges Ahead; Berma Klein Goldewijk; Introduction; Resurgent Religion, International Relations and Justice; Conflict and Religion, Cultural Pluralism and the Public Domain; Religion, Economy and International Development; Conclusion; References; Part I Religion, International Relations and Global Institutions

How Shall We Then Live? Rethinking Religion, Politics and Communities in an Age of Global TerrorismScott M. Thomas; Introduction; The Invention of Religion: Deconstructing the Myth of Liberal Secularism; Religion and International Conflict; Religion, Civil Society and Democracy Promotion; Religion, Civil Society, and Development; Building Communities of Character; Conclusion; References; Recognised and Violated by International Law: The Human Rights of the Global Poor; Thomas Pogge; Introduction; Human Rights and Correlative Duties

Features of the Present Global Order Cause Massive Severe PovertyConclusion; The Promise of Global Institutional Reform; References; The Poor, the New Cosmology and Liberation; Leonardo Boff; Introduction; The Future of the Great Poor: the Earth and Humankind; Benchmarks of the New Cosmology: the Cosmic Theatre; The Place of Human Beings; The Poor and the Excluded, Victims of Social and Ecological Injustice; Conclusion: Fresh Urgency for Liberation Theology; References; Part II Religion and Conflict, Cultural Pluralism and the Public Domain ; The Future of Religion and Domestic Conflict

Jonathan FoxIntroduction; Some Definitions and Assumptions; Eight Trends in Religion and Conflict; Conclusion; References; The Secular Roots of Radical Political Islam; Mahmood Mamdani; Introduction; 'Good' Muslim,'Bad' Muslim: Political Violence and the State; Cold War and Proxy Wars, Liberation and Terror; References; Religion, Ethics and Violence: Developing a New Muslim Discourse; Riffat Hassan; Introduction ; History of Negative Imaging of Islam and Muslims; The Politics of Language: Fundamentalism and Jihad; Normative Islamic (Qur'anic) Teachings on Pluralism

Critical Issues in the Islamic WorldContemporary Discourse on Islam: Pakistan as a Case Study; Conclusion: Developing a New Paradigm in Discourse on Islam; References; Human Rights and Muslim Forms of Life: A Pluralist Approach with Especial Emphasis on Iran; Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedi; Introduction; Relativism: an Episode of a Lengthy Story; Conflict of the Hedgehogs: Liberal versus Muslim Anti-Pluralisms ; Pluralistic Human Rights: Same Bed and Different Dreams; Cultural Islam versus Islamism; Acknowledgements; References; Islam and Christianity in the Public Debate; Henk Vroom; Introduction

Appealing to Common Values: Faith as a Private Affair