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Many Catholic priests, nuns, and brothers in the United States take a strong interest in US policies that affect their "brothers and sisters" abroad. In fact, when the policies of their native government pose significant dangers to their people internationally, these US citizens engage actively in a variety of political processes in order to protect and advance the interests of the transnational religious communities to which they belong. In this provocative examination of the place of religion in world politics, Timothy A. Byrnes focuses on three Catholic communities -- Jesuit, Mary

"The Catholic Hierarchy's Political Role: A Structural Analysis" published on by Oxford University Press.

The reintroduction of religious diversity into European society … is also reintroducing religion, and religiously motivated conflicts, to European politics.

Distinguishing his understanding of nationalism's origins from what he terms the 'modernist school,' Robert E. Alvis, a professor of church history at St. Meinrad School of Theology, argues for a 'nuanced and variegated portrait of the relationship between early European nationalism and religion' (p. xvii). Most informed readers of the volume will be familiar with the partition of the Polish state during this period, and with the degree to which the Catholic Church emerged in this era as a kind of alternative locus of Polish self-understanding and Polish national aspiration.