Title The Religious Problem with Religious Freedom : Why Foreign Policy Needs Political Theology / Robert J. Joustra

Edition First edition Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF Series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figure and tables; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The God Squad: public debate and the American Office of Religious Freedom; 3 Freedom of, or from, religion? Canada and the Office of Religious Freedom; 4 The religious problem: the meaning of the religious and the secular in A Secular Age; 5 Revolutions in political theology; 6 The politics of principled pluralism; 7 The practices of principled pluralism: making foreign policy in a religious world; 8 Conclusion; References; Bibliography; Index Summary "Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America. This book explores how debates over the American Office of Religious Freedom and its International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA, 1998) and very recent debates over the Canadian Office of Religious Freedom (2013) have pitted at least six basic, but very different meanings of the religious and the secular against each other in often undisclosed and usually unproductive ways. Properly naming this 'religious problem' is a critical first step to acknowledging and conciliating their practically polar political prescriptions. It must be considered how we are to think about religion in political offices, both the Canadian and the American experience, as an essentially contested term, and one which demands better than postmodern paralysis, what the author terms political theology. This is especially critical since both of these cases are not just about how to deal with religion at home, but how to engage with religion abroad, where real peril, and real practical policy must be undertaken to protect increasingly besieged religious minorities. Finally, a principled pluralist approach to the religious and the secular suggests a way to think outside the 'religious problem' and productively enlist and engage the forces of religion resurging around the globe. The book will be of great use to scholars and students in religion and foreign affairs, secularization, political theology, and political theory, as well as professionals and policy makers working in issues relating to religion, religious freedom, and foreign affairs."--Provided by publisher Subject Freedom of religion -- North America Religion and politics -- North America Public theology -- North America Political theology -- North America POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- General. RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues. RELIGION -- Christianity -- General. Freedom of religion Political theology Public theology Religion Religion and politics SUBJECT North America -- Religion Subject North America Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315620176 1315620170

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