With a breadth that cannot be found elsewhere, this book examines religion and political parties using case studies from a wide variety of geographic and cultural areas.

The book focuses upon the impact of religion on democratization in a number of countries. This book was published as a special issue of Democratizations.

This book examines a key question: how does Samuel Huntington’s clash of civilizations paradigm help explain current Western governments responses to Muslim migration and related security issues?

This book argues the clash of civilizations, first explored by Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington three decades ago, ideologically informs right-wing populist politicians in the United States and Europe as…

This comprehensive handbook examines relationships between religion, politics and ideology, with a focus on several world religions - Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism - in a variety of contexts…

Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of authoritarian regimes from military administrations to one–party…

As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance. This handbook responds to that development, providing important results of…

Argues that various religious ‘actors’ are significantly involved in international relations and have become a crucial influence on policy in a post-Westphalian world. This book guides the reader through the…