Religion in World Conflict

Jonathan Fox, Shmeul Sandler, Jonathan Fox, Shmeul Sandler

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317983774
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political Freedom
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This new book tackles two crucial questions: First, how does religion in its various forms and manifestations influence world politics? Second, how will adding religion to the discourse on international relations modify our theoretical understanding?

Each of these leading authors addresses different aspects of these questions in different contexts providing a diverse and multifaceted view of the topic.

Susanna Pearce and Tanja Ellingsen examine the religious causes of conflict on the macro-level. Several of the contributors focus on specific conflicts. The Gaurav Ghose and Patrick James examine the Kashmir conflict from the Pakistani perspective and Carolyn James and Ozgur. Ozdamar examine it from the Indian perspective. Similarly Hillel Frisch examines the Palestinian-ISraeli conflict from the Palestinian perspective and Jonathan Rynhold examines it from the Israeli perspective. Finally, two of the authors examine other important issues. Stuart Cohen examines the evolution of the religious view of war in the Jewish tradition and Yehudit Auerbach examines whether can play a role in conflict resolution and reconciliation. These assessments deliver fascinating conclusions.

This book was previously published as a Special Issue of Terrorism and Violence.

Index

Achdut Havoda 88

Afghanistan 145, 159, 161, 162

Africa 15, 20

African Americans 40, 116–17, 123, 124

African National Congress 182

afterlife 41, 44, 48

Al Qaeda 5, 46, 159

al-Aqsa intifada 97

Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades (Kata’ib Shuhada al-Aqsa) 97–8, 103–4, 104–5

Al-Aqsa Mosque 84, 97, 98–9

allegory 52

Amalek 66

America see United States of America (USA)

American Jews 115–16, 116–17, 126

apartheid 171

apologies 171–2, 177–8

conflict causes 17–18, 40, 41–2

Appleby, S. 40

Arab American Republicans against Bush organization 113

Arab Revolt (1936–1939) 59

Arafat, Y. 100–1

Ashkenazi Jews 80

Asia 20, 157

authentic religion 41

Azad Kashmir 160

balance of power 136–7, 137–8, 153, 154

Bangladesh 145, 159, 160

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies 1

belief systems 2, 18

Beyer, P. 12

Bhagavad Gita 52

Bharatiya Janata Party (BNJ) 164–5

Bhutto, Z.A. 143, 144

Bible 51–2

Bloc of the Faithful (Gush Emunim) 83

BNJ see Bharatiya Janata Party

boarding schools 89

Bosnia 153–4

Buddhism 53

Bunge, M. 152

burial sites 99

causes of conflict see conflict causes

Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) 140, 162

Chadda, M. 157

chi-squares 47, 52–3

China 141

Choudhury, G.W. 141

Christianity 51, 53, 139, 180, 181, 183

church attendance 14

civilizations: classification of countries 31; and cultural identity 18; importance of religion 15; and role of identity 2

clash of civilizations 5, 18, 42, 46, 77

Clinton Framework for Final Status Agreement (Israel—Palestine, 2000) 85

coalition politics 84–6

collective apologies 178

commanded wars 63

communalism 167

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• The Question of Religion and World Politics
• Toward a Revival of Religion and Religious Clashes?
• Religious Rage: A Quantitative Analysis of the Intensity of Religious Conflicts
• The Changing Jewish Discourse on Armed Conflict: Themes and Implications
• Religion, Postmodernization, and Israeli Approaches to the Conflict with the Palestinians
• Has the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict Become Islamic? Fatah, Islam, and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades
• Conflict over Israel: The Role of Religion, Race, Party, and Ideology in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1997–2002
• Third-Party intervention in Ethno-Religious Conflict: Role Theory, Pakistan, and War in Kashmir
• Religion as a Factor in Ethnic Conflict: Kashmir and Indian Foreign Policy
• Forgiveness and Reconciliation: The Religious Dimension
• Index