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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I RELIGION AND REGIME -- 1 Religion and Politics in Comparative and Historical Perspective -- 2 The Iranian Revolution in Comparative Perspective -- 3 Rendering unto Caesar? Religious Competition and Catholic Political Strategy in Latin America, 1962-79 -- 4 Warring Gods? Theological Tales -- 5 Buddhaputra and Bhumiputra? Dilemmas of Modern Sinhala Buddhist Monks in Relation to Ethnic and Political Conflict -- 6 The War in Former Yugoslavia and Religion -- 7 Democracy and Religious Politics: Evidence from Belgium -- PART II THE POLITICS OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONS -- 8 Religious Capital and Capital Religions: Cross-Cultural and Non-Legal Factors in the Separation of Church and State -- 9 Secularism and the State: Towards Clarity and Global Comparison -- 10 The New Religious State -- 11 The Politics of Ideology: The Papal Struggle with Liberalism -- 12 Jewish Messianism, Religious Zionism and Israeli Politics: The Impact and Origins of Gush Emunim -- 13 The Evolving Regulatory Structure of European Church-State Relationships -- 14 Church and State in Spain from the Civil War to the Return of Democracy -- PART III RELIGION AND ELECTORAL POLITICS -- 15 Regional and Religious Support of Political Parties and Effects on their Issue Positions -- 16 Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting: The "Crucial Experiment" of Comparing Belgium, Canada, South Africa, and Switzerland -- 17 Politics and the Pulpit: The Case of Protestant Europe -- 18 In From the Cold? Christian Parties in Scandinavia -- 19 Modernity and Fundamentalism: The New Christian Right in America -- 20 Cultural Conflict in American Politics: Religious Traditionalism, Postmaterialism, and U.S. Political Behavior -- 21 Religion and Politics in Postcommunist Russia.

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