Beyond the Death of God

Simone Raudino is Visiting Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics.Patricia Sohn is Associate Professor of Political Science and Jewish Studies at the University of Florida.

• Section 1: INTRODUCTION/COMPARATIVE THEMES1. Patricia Sohn, University of Florida—GainesvilleSimone Raudino, Kyiv School of Economics—Kyiv, Bridging Gaps—Hong Kong Editors' Introduction: Religion and Politics 2. Mark Tessler, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Commentary: Modernization, Comparison, and Religion 3. Simone Raudino, Kyiv School of Economics—Kyiv, Bridging Gaps—Hong Kong Religion and Conflict: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence Section 2: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL CASES ACROSS REGIONS4. CHRISTIANITY/EUROPE – Introductions5. Marco Ferraro – Kyiv and Ankara The Genealogy of Morals in European Populist Movements 6. Antoine Arjakovsky, Collège des Bernardins—Paris Belief in Politics and Politics of Religion: The Case of Ukraine 7. Martin Chung, Hong Kong Baptist University—Hong Kong Secularism and Sectarianism in Christianity: The Case of Northern Ireland during the Troubles 8. ISLAM/AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST – Introductions9. Abdourahmane (Rahmane) Idrissa, Leiden University – Leiden The Politics of Islam in the Sahel: Between Quiescence and Violence 10. Mutaz Al-Khatib, Hamid bin Khalifa University—Doha Religious versus Civilian Freedoms: The Case of Apostasy in Islam 11. Ibrahim Yahaya Ibrahim, Crisis Group – Dakar The Politicization of Religious Activism: The Case of Islamic Humanitarian Organizations 12. JUDAISM/MIDDLE EAST – Introductions13. Patricia Sohn, University of Florida—Gainesville Global Trends in Religion and State: Secular Law and Freedom of Religion in Israel 14. Eti Peretz and Jonathan Fox, Bar Ilan University—Ramat Gan The Balancing of Religious and Democratic Values in the Israeli Judiciary: 1983 – 2006 15. Mordechai (Motti) Inbari, University of North Carolina—Pembroke Psychology in Religion: The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in Religious Readings of the Israeli Disengagement Plan 16. BUDDHISM, HINDUISM, AND SYNCRETIC RELIGIONS/ASIA – Introductions17. Pratick Mallick, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College—New Barrackpur Hinduism and Hindutva: A Historiography of Modern Indian Politics 18. Wasana Wongsurawat, Chulalongkorn University—Bangkok Multiculturalism and Revolution: An Analytic History of the Chinese Communist Party’s Relationship with Syncretic Religious Movements 19. Jue Liang, ASIANetwork/Luce Foundation, Denison University—Granville Trading Western Suits for Maroon Robes: Tibetan Buddhist Cosmopolitanism at Larung Gar 20. Manus Midlarsky, Rutgers University – New BrunswickSumin Lee, Rutgers University – New Brunswick Distancing the Other: Religious Violence and Its Absence in South Korea CONTRIBUTORSREFERENCES

“Beyond the Death of God helps us understand a truth that the secularization thesis has long masked: across the world, consciously or unconsciously, we still continue being living symbols of deep religious choices”—Husain Haqqani, author and former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States