Short description:

This four-volume set organizes and contextualizes this burgeoning literature and its contribution to the study of international theory, focusing in particular on its influence in the subfield of war and peace studies. 

Long description:

The study of religion and international relations has been gathering pace over the past few decades, and has intensified since the start of the new millennium, when the discipline experienced a sudden surge of interest attributable to world events, starting with the Iranian Revolution and culminating with U.S. incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq.

This four-volume set organizes and contextualizes this burgeoning literature and its contribution to the study of international theory, focusing in particular on its influence in the subfield of war and peace studies.

The four volumes are arranged thematically, including papers which offer a range of answers to key questions such as:

• How has religion shaped the structure of international system?
• How do we define the relationship between religion and war?
• In what ways has religion prevented, constrained or resolved conflict?
• How do we approach the methodological, ontological and epistemological challenges raised by the interdisciplinary study of religion and international relations?

Table of Contents:

VOLUME ONE: RELIGION AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
The Clash of Civilizations? - Samuel P. Huntington
Taking Religious and Cultural Pluralism Seriously: The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Society - Scott Thomas
Religion as an Overlooked Element of International Relations - Jonathan Fox
History and Arguments: ?Substance in Our Enmities? - Anthony W. Marx
Reconsidering Westphalia?s Legacy for Religion and International Politics - John Carlson and Erik Owens
The Loss of Faith in Secular Nationalism - Mark Juergensmeyer
Getting Religion: Has Political Science Rediscovered the Faith Factor? - Kenneth D. Wald and Clyde Wilcox
Faith in Politics: New Trends in the Study of Religion and Politics - Eva Bellin
Has the Study of Global Politics Found Religion? - Daniel Philpott
Religion and International Relations Theory: Towards a Mutual Understanding - Nukhet Sandal and Patrick James
Why Was There No Religious War in Premodern East Asia? - David Kang
VOLUME TWO: RELIGION AND WAR
The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France - Natalie Zemon Davis
Huitzilopochtli?s Feast: Sacramental Warfare in Ancient Mexico - James A. Aho
Fear and Trembling: Terrorism in Three Religious Traditions - David C. Rapoport
Military Religion among the Crusaders: 1095?1215 - David S. Bachrach
Getting Religion? The Puzzling Case of Islam and Civil War - Monica Duffy Toft
Explaining the Political Ambivalence of Religion - Daniel Philpott
Religious Rage: A Quantitative Analysis of the Intensity of Religious Conflicts - Susanna Pearce
Fighting with Faith: Religion and Conflict Resolution in Civil Wars - Isak Svensson
Islam's Bloody Innards? Religion and Political Terror, 1980?2000 - Indra de Soysa and Ragnhild Nord?s
What?s So ?Religious? about ?Religious Terrorism?? - Jeroen Gunning and Richard Jackson
Blasphemy and Violence - Ron E. Hassner
The Ancient Fire: Religion and Suicide Terrorism - Peter S. Henne
VOLUME THREE: RELIGION AND PEACE
The Killing of Captives and the Destruction of Enemy Fortifications - Shaybani
Is It Always Sinful to Wage War? - St. Thomas Aquinas
Extract from The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response, A Pastoral Letter on War and Peace - National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Historical Roots and Sources of the Just War Tradition in Western Culture - James Turner Johnson
World Religions and Conflict Resolution - Harvey Cox et al.
Religion and Conflict Transformation - R. Scott Appleby
Religion and Peacebuilding - Cynthia Sampson
Between Religion and Conflict Resolution: Mapping a New Field of Study - Marc Gopin
Faith-based Diplomacy and Preventive Engagement - Douglas Johnston and Brian Cox
To Halve and to Hold: Conflicts over Sacred Space and the Problem of Indivisibility - Ron E. Hassner
Islamic Principles of Nonviolence and Peacebuilding - Mohammed Abu-Nimer
Religion in World Affairs: Its Role in Conflict and Peace - David R. Smock
Faithful Brokers? Potentials and Pitfalls of Religion in Peacemaking - Kristian Berg Harpviken and Hanne Eggen R?islien
Religion and Mediation: The Role of Faith-based Actors in International Conflict Resolution - Jacob Bercovitch and Ayse S. Kadayifci-Orellana
Religion and Peacebuilding - Gerard Powers
VOLUME FOUR: RELIGION, IR AND METHODOLOGY
The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category - Talal Asad
On ?Religion? and Its Despisers - Ivan Strenski
Does Religion Make a Difference? Theoretical Approaches to the Impact of Faith on Political Conflict - Andrease Hasenclever and Volker Rittberger
Clash of Civilizations, or Realism and Liberalism Déj? Vu? Some Evidence - Bruce M. Russett, John R. Oneal and Michaelene Cox
Is There a Clash of Civilizations? Evidence from Patterns of International Conflict Involvement, 1946?97 - Giacomo Chiozza
Ethnicity, Political Systems and Civil Wars - Marta Reynal-Querol
Ethnicity, Insurgency, and Civil War - James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin
The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism - Robert Pape
Clash of Civilisations and Escalation of Domestic Ethnopolitical Conflicts - Philip G. Roeder
The Political Authority of Secularism in International Relations - Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Civilisational Conflicts: More Frequent, Longer, and Bloodier? - Andrej Tusicisny
Religion Is Not a Preference - Joshua Mitchell
Religious Preferences and Social Science: A Second Look - Clyde Wilcox, Kenneth D. Wald, & Tedd G. Jelen
Religion and Violence: Coming to Terms with Terms - John D. Carlson
The ?Ambivalence of the Sacred? in Africa: The Impact of Religion on Peace and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa - Matthias Basedau and Alexander de Juan
Shrouded: Islam, War and Holy War in Southeast Asia - Shane Barter and Ian Zatkin-Osburn