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This book offers a fresh, constructive and critical understanding of Christian contributions to the origin and development of the EU from a variety of theological and national perspectives.

Focuses on the important role of the Church in both electoral politics and public policy formulation in the twenty first century, and argues that contrary to the established secularisation argument generally applied in Europe, religion continues to be a powerful influence, particularly within British politics.

Exploring Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) in current developmental discourses and practice, this book presents a selection of empirical in-depth case-studies of Christian FBOs and assesses the vital role credited to FBOs in current discourses on development.

Examining contestation and conflict management within holy cities, this book provides both an overview and a range of options available to those concerned with this increasingly urgent phenomenon.

Exploring the issue of Islamophobic attacks against Sikhs since 9/11, this book explains the historical, religious and legal foundations and frameworks for understanding race hate crime against the Sikh community in the UK.

The number of religious NGOs (RNGOs) engaging with the United Nations (UN) has grown considerably in recent years. This volume examines whether the RNGOs¿ involvement polarizes political debates at the UN or facilitates agreement on policy issues.

This book offers a fresh, constructive and critical understanding of Christian contributions to the origin and development of the EU from a variety of theological and national perspectives.

By exploring the role of religion in transnational relations between Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their surrounding neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU, this volume describes and helps explain how transnational religious relationships intermingle with transnational political relationships in the South Caucasus.

This volume approaches the UN as a laboratory of religio-political value politics.

"Exploring the viability of new perspectives on secularisation and the idea of postsecularism, this book reflects on their relevance when considered in the context of different societies within and outside the West"--

"This book explores the politics of conservative Christian churches and social movements in Russia and the United States, focusing on their similar concerns but very different modes of political engagement"--

Examining religious representation at the state, transnational and institutional levels, this volume demonstrates that religion is becoming an increasingly important element of the decision-making process. It provides a comprehensive analysis of religious representation in the European Union that will be of great interest to students and scholars of European politics, sociology of religion and international relations.

The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and/or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. This book offers an interdisciplinary scope and European-wide setting. It focuses on the identification of (conflicting) fundamental rights.

This new volume seeks to showcase the latest research into Muslim political participation both in terms of electoral politics and civil society initiatives.

Features a group of interdisciplinary scholars each of whom analyzes the connections between religious narratives and the construction of regional and global politics, combining a set of theoretical and philosophic insights with several case studies that represent varied geographies and religious customs.

This book seeks to identify the work of Christians as agents in the midst of the broader influences of colonialism, power politics, and majoritarian religious forces. It demonstrates that Christians continue to have a role to play in the midst of a Middle East in conflict.