Render Unto Caesar: The Religious Sphere in World Politics - Softcover

9781879383449: Render Unto Caesar: The Religious Sphere in World Politics

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1879383446 ISBN 13: 9781879383449

Publisher: American University Press, 1995

Topics include the relationship of religious values to political stability, democratic political development, and the resocialization of the country. The contributors also examine the role of religious symbols as a legitimizing force. Geographically, Render unto Caesar is limited to Eurasia, but religions discussed include Catholicism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Protestantism, Judaism, Orthodox Christianity, Confucianism, African ancestor worship, Siberian Shamanism, Inca Religion, and Korean folk religion. Contributors include Samuel P. Huntington, Roger Friedland and Richard Hecht, Doug Edwards, Jo Ann McNamara, Hanna Kassis, Dauril Alden, Willfried Spohn, Cynthia Ann Humes, Michael J. Ziemann, James Felak, William C. Fletcher, Clark Sorensen, Stephen Denney, and Gene Webb.

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...fascinating book... (Foreign Affairs )

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