Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics: Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era – eBook

The effect of religious factors on politics has been a crucial issue since the end of the Cold War and the following rise of religious terrorism. Though, the systematic investigations of these topics have stressed primarily the effects of religion on international and domestic conflict. Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics (ePub/PDF) provides a comprehensive evaluation of the role of religion in international relations, extending the scope of the investigation to such topics as the relationship between religion and conflict, religion and cooperation, and the relationship between religion and the quality of life. Religion is regularly manipulated by political elites to spread their principal goal of political survival. Errol A. Henderson and Zeev Maoz find that no particular religion is either consistently more aggressive or consistently more cooperative than other religions. Though, the religious similarity between states tends to lessen the propensity of conflict and increase the opportunity for security cooperation. The expert authors find a substantial relationship between secularism and human security.

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