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Holy Wars and Holy Alliance : The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage / Manlio Graziano.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion, Culture, and Public Life ; 28Publisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231174626
  • 9780231543910
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201.72709045 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.P7 G69313 2017
  • BL65.P7 G69313 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Modernity and Religion -- 1. The Death of God -- 2. The Return of God -- 3. God's Revenge -- Part II. The Resacralization of Politics in the 1970s -- 4. Religion and Power in the 1970s -- 5. The Islamization of the Iranian Revolution -- 6. The Geopolitical Reinvention of the Holy War -- 7. The Catholicization of Modernity -- Part III. The Holy War -- 8. The Clash of Civilizations -- 9. The Clash of Ignorance -- 10. The Bloody Borders of Religion -- 11. Terrorism -- Part IV. The Holy Alliance -- 12. Dialogue Among Civilizations -- 13. The Catholic Alliance -- 14. The Holy Alliance -- 15. All Roads Lead to Rome -- Conclusion: Religion and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics. At the same time, the Catholic Church has sought a "holy alliance" among the world's faiths to recentralize devout influence, an important, albeit little-noticed, evolution in international relations.Holy Wars and Holy Alliance explores the nation-state's current crisis in order to better understand the religious resurgence's implications for geopolitics. Manlio Graziano looks at how the Catholic Church promotes dialogue and action linking world religions, and examines how it has used its material, financial, and institutional strength to gain power and increase its profile in present-day international politics. Challenging the idea that modernity is tied to progress and secularization, Graziano documents the "return" or the "revenge" of God in all facets of life. He shows that tolerance, pluralism, democracy, and science have not triumphed as once predicted. To fully grasp the destabilizing dynamics at work today, he argues, we must appreciate the nature of religious struggles and political holy wars now unfolding across the international stage.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Modernity and Religion -- 1. The Death of God -- 2. The Return of God -- 3. God's Revenge -- Part II. The Resacralization of Politics in the 1970s -- 4. Religion and Power in the 1970s -- 5. The Islamization of the Iranian Revolution -- 6. The Geopolitical Reinvention of the Holy War -- 7. The Catholicization of Modernity -- Part III. The Holy War -- 8. The Clash of Civilizations -- 9. The Clash of Ignorance -- 10. The Bloody Borders of Religion -- 11. Terrorism -- Part IV. The Holy Alliance -- 12. Dialogue Among Civilizations -- 13. The Catholic Alliance -- 14. The Holy Alliance -- 15. All Roads Lead to Rome -- Conclusion: Religion and International Politics in the Twenty-First Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Religions are reemerging in the social, political, and economic spheres previously occupied and dominated by secular institutions and ideologies. In the wake of crises exposing the limits of secular modernity, religions have again become significant players in domestic and international politics. At the same time, the Catholic Church has sought a "holy alliance" among the world's faiths to recentralize devout influence, an important, albeit little-noticed, evolution in international relations.Holy Wars and Holy Alliance explores the nation-state's current crisis in order to better understand the religious resurgence's implications for geopolitics. Manlio Graziano looks at how the Catholic Church promotes dialogue and action linking world religions, and examines how it has used its material, financial, and institutional strength to gain power and increase its profile in present-day international politics. Challenging the idea that modernity is tied to progress and secularization, Graziano documents the "return" or the "revenge" of God in all facets of life. He shows that tolerance, pluralism, democracy, and science have not triumphed as once predicted. To fully grasp the destabilizing dynamics at work today, he argues, we must appreciate the nature of religious struggles and political holy wars now unfolding across the international stage.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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