Abduh, Muhammad -- Abolitionism -- Abortion -- Afghani, Jamal al-Din al- -- Afghanistan -- Africa, West: The Mande World -- African American Experience -- Ahmad Khan, Sir Sayyid -- Algeria -- Anabaptists -- Anglicanism -- Angola -- Anticlericalism -- Anti-Semitism -- Ataturk, Kemal -- Atheism -- Bahai -- Balkan States -- Banna, Hasan al- -- Baptists -- Barth, Karl -- Base Communities -- Bonhoeffer, Dietrich -- Botswana -- Bourguiba, Habib -- Brazil -- Buddha -- Buddhism, Theravada -- Buddhism, Tibetan -- Burke, Edmund -- Calvinism -- Canada -- Capitalism -- Catholicism, Roman -- CELAM -- Censorship -- Central America -- Central Asia -- China -- Christian Democracy -- Christian Right -- Christian Science -- Christianity -- Christianity in Africa -- Christianity in Asia -- Citizenship -- Civil Disobedience -- Civil Religion -- Civil Rights Movement -- Civil Society -- Clash of Civilizations -- Colonialism -- Communication -- Communism -- Communitarianism -- Community Organizing -- Confucianism -- Confucius -- Congo, Democratic Republic of the -- Conservatism -- Constitution, U.S. -- Conversion -- Covenant -- Creationism and Evolution -- Crime and Criminal Justice -- Crusades -- Cuba -- Cults -- Dalai Lama -- Day, Dorothy -- Demographic Shifts in Global Christianity -- Denominationalism -- Douglass, Frederick -- Druze -- Durkheim, Emile -- Economic Development -- Education -- Egypt -- English Revolution -- Enlightenment -- Environmentalism -- Ethnicity -- Europe, Eastern -- Europe, Western -- Evangelicalism -- Fascism -- Feminism -- France -- Freedom of Religion -- Freemasonry -- Friends, Society of (Quakers) -- Fundamentalism -- Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand -- Gender -- Genocide and ʺEthnic Cleansingʺ -- Germany -- Ghana -- Globalization -- Graham, Billy -- Great Britain -- Gush Emunim -- Havel, Vaclav -- Heresy -- Herzl, Theodor -- Heschel, Abraham Joshua -- Hinduism -- Hobbes, Thomas -- Holidays -- Holocaust -- Homosexuality -- Human Rights -- Humanitarianism -- Hungary -- Ibn Khaldun -- Ibn Taimiyya -- Independent Churches, African -- India -- Individualism -- Indonesia -- Inquisition -- Iqbal, Muhammad -- Iran -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Islam -- Islam in Africa -- Islam in Europe -- Islam in Southeast Asia -- Islam in the United States -- Islam, Radical -- Islamʼs Encounters with the West -- Israel -- Italy -- Ivory Coast -- James, William -- Japan -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jehovahʼs Witnesses -- Jerusalem -- Jesuits -- Jesus -- Jihad -- Jinnah, Muhammad Ali -- Jordan -- Judaism -- Kenya -- Khomeini, Ruhollah Musavi -- King, Martin Luther, Jr. -- Korea -- Kurds -- Latin America -- Latter-day Saints, Church of Jesus Christ of -- Lebanon -- Liberalism -- Liberation Theology -- Libya -- Liturgy -- Lobbying, Religious -- Low Countries -- Lutheranism -- Madison, James -- Mahdi -- Malaysia -- Maritain, Jacques -- Martyrdom -- Marxism -- Maryknoll -- Mawdudi, Sayyid Abu al-Ala -- Mecca -- Media and Religion -- Medicine -- Merton, Thomas -- Methodism -- Mexico -- Millennialism -- Miracles -- Missionaries -- Morality -- Morocco -- Muhammad -- Nasser, Gamal Abdel -- Nation of Islam -- Nationalism -- Native Americans -- Nativism -- Natural Law -- Nhat Hanh, Thich -- Niebuhr, Reinhold -- Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm -- Nigeria -- Nongovernmental Organizations -- Oceania -- Orthodoxy, Greek -- Orthodoxy, Russian -- Pacifism -- Paganism -- Pakistan -- Palestine -- Papacy -- Papua -- New Guinea -- Pentecostalism -- Pentecostalism in Africa -- Philanthropy -- Philippines -- Pluralism -- Poland -- Prejudice -- Presbyterianism -- Presidents, American -- Protestantism -- Protestantism, Mainline -- Qaddafi, Muammar al- -- Qutb, Sayyid -- Reformation -- Religious Foundations -- Religious Organization -- Revivalism -- Revolutions -- Romero, Oscar A. -- Russia -- Rwanda -- Sacred Places -- Sadat, Anwar -- Saints -- Sanctuary -- Saudi Arabia -- Scandinavia -- Science and Technology -- Secular Humanism -- Secularization -- Senegal -- Separation of Church and State as a Principle of Human Rights -- Separation of Church and State in Political Theory -- Seventh-day Adventism -- Sexuality -- Sharia -- Shinto -- Social Gospel -- Social Justice -- Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I. -- Somalia -- South Africa -- Spain -- Sri Lanka -- State Churches -- Sudan -- Sufism -- Sukarno, Achmad -- Survivalism -- Syria -- Taxation -- Temperance Movements -- Teresa, Mother -- Thailand -- Theocracy -- Theology, Public -- Tocqueville, Alexis de -- Traditional Religions, African -- Traditionalism -- Tunisia -- Turkey -- Uganda -- Unification Church -- Unitarianism -- United States of America -- Utopianism -- Vatican -- Vatican Council, Second -- Vietnam -- Violence -- Voluntarism -- Voting -- War -- Weber, Max -- Westphalia, Peace of -- Witchcraft -- World Council of Churches -- Yemen -- Yugoslavia -- Zimbabwe -- Appendix: Documents on Politics and religion: Ninety-Five Theses (1517), Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessment (1785), Thomas Jefferson on Religious Freedom (1786,1802), Federalist No. 10 (1787), Balfour Declaration (1917), Barmen Declaration (1934), Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), Irish Peace Accord (1998). Reference Materials: Religious Affiliation in Countries and Regions of the World, mid-2005, constitutions of the World, Politics and Religion on the Internet.
Summary:
The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion traces the roots of the relationship between politics and religion from antiquity to today, revealing how it has shaped public discourse, social attitudes, collective action and national and international policy, particularly during the past two centuries.
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