Holy Wars and Holy Alliance

The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-231-17462-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Religions are creeping back into the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied by secular institutions and ideologies. Disillusioned with industrial progress and cut off from opportunity and wealth, many are looking to Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity to restore a sense of purpose not found in daily life. Since the 1970s, the Catholic Church has sought a "holy alliance" among the world's religions to recentralize religious ideas and practice in modern society.

Holy Wars or Holy Alliances explores the nation-state's current crisis to better understand its origins and future development. Focusing on the Catholic Church, Manlio Graziano looks at how Catholicism has coordinated world religions in joint actions. Through its material, financial, and institutional strength, the Church has gained power and increased its profile in international politics. Challenging the ideas that modernity is tied to progress and religion necessarily means decline, Graziano documents the "return" or the "revenge" of God in all facets of secular life. He shows that tolerance, pluralism, democracy, and science have not triumphed as claimed in modern times. To fully grasp the destabilizing dynamics at work in our world today, Graziano argues, we must appreciate the nature of the religious struggles and political holy wars now unfolding across the international stage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graziano, Manlio

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Geopolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöse Intoleranz, Verfolgung, Religionskonflikte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Modernity and Religion1. The Death of God2. The Return of God3. God's RevengePart II. The Resacralization of Politics in the 1970s4. Religion and Power in the 1970s5. The Islamization of the Iranian Revolution6. The Geopolitical Reinvention of the Holy War7. The Catholicization of ModernityPart III. The Holy War8. The Clash of Civilizations9. The Clash of Ignorance10. The Bloody Borders of Religion11. TerrorismPart IV. The Holy Alliance12. Dialogue Among Civilizations13. The Catholic Alliance14. The Holy Alliance15. All Roads Lead to RomeConclusion: Religion and International Politics in the Twenty-First CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Manlio Graziano teaches geopolitics of religions at Paris-Sorbonne University, the American Graduate School in Paris, and the Geneva Institute of Geopolitical Studies. His books include Essential Geopolitics: A Handbook (2011) and The Failure of Italian Nationhood: The Geopolitics of a Troubled Identity (2010).