The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power
How States Use Religion in Foreign Policy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 November 2023
- ISBN 9780197605806
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 165x229x43 mm
- Weight 612 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 4 b/w illustrations 457
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Short description:
The Geopolitics of Religious Soft Power represents the first globally comparative study of the varying ways in which states incorporate religion and religious outreach into their external relations. Each chapter demonstrates how the history, religious culture, and geopolitical orientation of a particular country determines its capacity for using religion as part of a soft power strategy while simultaneously dictating the nature and shape of its religious outreach activities, its intended audiences, and likelihood of success or impact.
MoreLong description:
Religion features prominently in the international relations of many states around the world today. Whether mobilizing religious affinities as a form of public diplomacy, positioning religion as a force to counteract perceived ideological foes, or creating transnational networks of religious populism to support incumbent regimes--governments clearly perceive geopolitical utility in the power of religion. This volume explores how states across multiple regions and a diverse range of faith traditions incorporate religion as an aspect of their foreign policy.
Each subsequent chapter is written by a leading expert and explores the role of religion in the global engagement of a particular country. Brazil, China, India, Iran, Jordan, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United States are all featured, as are states such as Israel and the Holy See, which by their nature have unique relationships with religion. The case studies illuminate various cross-national patterns, as well as continuities and discontinuities in the role of religion as a geopolitical tool. This volume aims to directly address gaps in scholarly knowledge with data and analysis and seeks to inform and shape scholarship, policymaking, and practice.
Religious soft power is often alluded to but rarely clarified. This book changes things: the contributors focus on religious soft power in a number of theoretical and empirical contexts and collectively shed much light on the phenomenon. Henceforward, researchers and scholars will have a 'go to' book, to clarify what we mean when we refer to religious soft power. Highly recommended.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1. Thinking about Religion and Religious Soft Power in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis
Peter Mandaville and Jon Hoffman
2. Tragedy or Irony: Geopolitical Grand Narratives, Religious Outreach, and US Soft Power
Peter S. Henne and Gregorio Bettiza
3. “Putin-phonia”: Harnessing Russian Orthodoxy to Advance Russia's Secular Foreign Policy
Robert Blitt
4. Chinese Buddhism and Soft Power and Sharp Power: Geopolitical Strategy and Modality of Religion
Yoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank
5. Turkey's Ambivalent Religious Soft Power in the Illiberal Turn
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk
6. The Modi Government and the Uses and Limits of India's Religious Soft Power
Sumit Ganguly
7. Shi'i Diplomacy: Religious Identity and Foreign Policy in the Axis of Resistance
Edward Wastnidge
8. Hassan II and the Foundations of Moroccan Religious Soft Power
Ann Wainscott
9. Religious Diplomacy in the Arab Gulf and the Politics of Moderate Islam
Annelle Sheline
10. Indonesian Islam as Model for the World? Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Geopolitics of 'Moderate Islam'
James Hoesterey
11. Moderation as Jordanian Soft Power: Islam and Beyond
Stacey Gutkowski
12. Israel's Religious Soft Power: Within and Beyond Judaism
Claudia Baumgart-Ochse
13. Soft Power of the Catholic Papacy
Timothy Byrnes
14. 'Brazil Above Everything or God Above Everyone?' The Sources of Brazil's Religious Soft Power
Guilherme Casarões and Amy Erica Smith
15. Religious Soft Power: Promises, Limits, and Ways Forward
Gregorio Bettiza and Peter S. Henne
