Dennis R. Hoover and Douglas M. Johnston’s new book Religion and Foreign Affairs: Essential Readings (Baylor University Press, January 2012) has officially been released and is available for regular order. Religion and Foreign Affairs offers readers a broad selection of essays, ranging across cultures and worldviews. From the ethics of force and peacemaking to globalization and American foreign policy, this compendium provides a solid introduction to the field of religion and foreign affairs that will stimulate discussion and encourage intelligent practice.

Monica Tuffy Toft (Initiative on Religion in International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) comments that: “This reader is an impressive, timely compilation of some of the best writings on religion and foreign affairs. Hoover and Johnston provide a critical overview and a helpful division of the articles into key issues areas, including secularization, democracy, conflict, development, human rights, globalization and peacemaking. Students and teachers of religion and global politics will find the volume immensely valuable as a unified source for grappling with the complexities of this topic.” Andrew Natsios (Georgetown University professor and former USAID administrator) likewise remarks: “Given the tectonic movements of the 21st century, scholars of international relations, and their students, have long needed a solid collection of historic writing on the role of religion in foreign affairs. They have what they need in Hoover and Johnston’s fine compilation.”

Table of Contents

Introduction

1

Religion and the Global Agenda: From the Margins to the Mainstream?

Dennis R. Hoover and Douglas M. Johnston

I. Secularization, Desecularization, and the Disciplines of International Affairs

2

The Meaning of Secularism

Charles Taylor

3

The Desecularization of the World: A Global Overview

Peter L. Berger

4

The Challenge of September 11 to Secularism in International Relations

Daniel Philpott

5

Rethinking the Role of Religion in Changing Public Spheres: Some Comparative Perspectives

Rosalind I. J. Hackett

6

Kicking the Secularist Habit: A Six-Step Program

David Brooks

II. Theoretical Foundations from Antiquity

7

“Melian Dialogue,”History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

8

The Return of Ancient Times: Why the Warrior Politics of the Twenty-First Century Will Demand a Pagan Ethos

Robert D. Kaplan

9

Unrealistic Realism: A Reflection on Robert D. Kaplan’s “Warrior Politics”

Dennis R. Hoover

10

Excerpts from Book 19, City of God

Augustine

11

Augustine’s Political Realism

Reinhold Niebuhr

12

“Really Existing” Scriptures: On the Use of Sacred Text in International Affairs

John A. Rees

13

Isaiah’s Vision of Human Security: Virtue-Ethics and International Politics

Scott M. Thomas

III. Ethics of Force

14

Of War (Four Articles), Summa Theologica

Thomas Aquinas

15

Just War Tradition: Is It Credible?

John Howard Yoder

16

Moral Clarity in a Time of War

George Weigel

17

War and Statecraft: An Exchange

Rowan Williams and George Weigel

18

Torture: A Just War Perspective

James Turner Johnson

19

The New Jihad and Islamic Tradition

John Kelsay

IV. Religion and Conflict

20

Terror Mandated by God

Mark Juergensmeyer

21

The Clash of Civilizations?

Samuel P. Huntington

22

Challenging Huntington

Richard E. Rubenstein and Jarle Crocker

23

Memo to the State: Religion and Security

Chris Seiple

24

The Politics of Persecuted Religious Minorities

Philip Jenkins

25

Religious Freedom: Good for What Ails Us?

Brian J. Grim

26

How Shall We Study Religion and Conflict? Challenges and Opportunities in the Early Twenty-First Century

John D. Carlson and Matt Correa

V. Religion and Peacemaking

27

Religion and Global Affairs: Religious “Militants for Peace”

R. Scott Appleby

28

Faith-Based Diplomacy: An Ancient Idea Newly Emergent

Brian Cox and Daniel Philpott

29

Military Chaplains: Bridging Church and State

Douglas M. Johnston

30

Religion as Destroyer and Creator of Peace: A Postmortem on Failed Peace Processes

Marc Gopin

31

Catholic Peacemaking, 1991–2005: The Legacy of Pope John Paul II

Drew Christiansen

32

The Potential for Peacebuilding in Islam: Toward an Islamic Concept of Peace

Hisham Soliman

VI. Religion, Globalization, and Transnationalism

33

Jihad vs. McWorld

Benjamin Barber

34

Religion and Globalization

James Kurth

35

Transnational Religious Actors and International Politics

Jeffrey Haynes

36

Transnational Religious Connections

Robert Wuthnow and Stephen Offutt

37

European Politics Gets Old-Time Religion

Timothy A. Byrnes

VII. Religion and Economic Development

38

Max Weber Is Alive and Well, and Living in Guatemala: The Protestant Ethic Today

Peter L. Berger

39

Inspiring Development in Fragile States

Seth Kaplan

40

New House Rules: Christianity, Economics, and Planetary Living

Sallie McFague

41

Islam, Globalization, and Economic Performance in the Middle East

Marcus Noland and Howard Pack

42

Development, Religion, and Women’s Roles in Contemporary Societies

Katherine Marshall

VIII. Religion, Democracy, and the State

43

Separation of Religion and State in the Twenty-First Century: Comparing the Middle East and Western Democracies

Jonathan Fox and Shmuel Sandler

44

Rethinking Religious Establishment and Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Israel

Steven V. Mazie

45

Christianity and Democracy: The Pioneering Protestants

Robert D. Woodberry and Timothy S. Shah

46

The Rise of “Muslim Democracy”

Vali Nasr

47

Public Theology and Democracy’s Future

Max L. Stackhouse

48

Public Religion, Democracy Promotion, and U.S. Foreign Policy

Thomas F. Farr

IX. Religious Freedom and Human Rights

49

Debating International Human Rights: The “Middle Ground” for Religious Participants

Paul A. Brink

50

Religious Liberty and Human Dignity: A Tale of Two Declarations

Kevin J. Hasson

51

Roman Catholicism and the Faith-Based Movement for Global Human Rights

Allen D. Hertzke

52

Patterns and Contexts of Religious Freedom and Persecution

Paul Marshall

53

Does the Human Right to Freedom of Conscience, Religion, and Belief Have Special Status?

David Little

54

Balancing Religious Freedom and Cultural Preservation

José Casanova

55

Soul Wars: New Battles, New Norms

John Witte, Jr.

X. Religion and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy

56

Religion and International Affairs

Barry Rubin

57

Faith and Diplomacy

Madeleine Albright

58

Religion and American Foreign Policy

Jack Miles

59

Methodology, Metrics, and Moral Imperatives in Religious Freedom Diplomacy

Robert A. Seiple