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Religions and cultures : religious dynamics in Latin America / Reginaldo Prandi -- Moderation of religious parties : electoral constraints, ideological commitments, and the democratic capacities of religious parties in Israel and Turkey / Sultan Tepe -- Capturing the religious spirit : a challenge for the secular state / Marcus Smith and Peter Marden -- Explaining the political ambivalence of religion / Daniel Philpott -- Nationalism and the political use and abuse of religion : the politicization of orthodoxy, Catholicism and Islam in Yugoslav successor states / Ivan Ivekovic -- Religion and military conscription : the case of the Israel Defense Forces / Hanne Eggen Røislien -- "Holy terror" : the implications of terrorism motivated by a religious imperative / Bruce Hoffman -- Religion, pragmatic fundamentalism and the transformation of the Northern Ireland conflict / Gladys Ganiel and Paul Dixon -- "Ours is the way of God" : religion, identity and intergroup conflict / Jefferey R. Seul -- Transnational religious connections / Robert Wuthnow and Stephen Offutt -- Lost in translation? : civil society, faith-based organizations and the negotiation of international norms / Aaron P. Boesenecker and Leslie Vinjamuri -- Religious actors as epistemic communities in conflict transformation : the cases of Northern Ireland and South Africa / Nukhet Sandal

AbstractIslamic finance has been surprisingly undertheorized in the international relations literature. In this paper, I fill this gap by investigating the dynamics of mainstreaming within the Islamic finance regime in global markets. Using the norm diffusion literature, I argue that the development and diffusion of Islamic economics, and the corresponding expertise, have followed three distinct steps. First, Islamic economics initially was a critique of capitalism and world markets; second, it was "nationalized" by the political leaders of major Muslim-majority countries; and third, it became an integral part of world markets. By tracing the development of Islamic finance as part of global politics, I situate it within a theoretical framework and show the wider implications of this economic framework for global politics.

"Post-Conflict Processes and Religion: An Overview" published on by Oxford University Press.

Human rights violations against religious or ethnic minorities cannot be treated independently of the state-society relations in respective countries. With a focus on the Christian citizens of the Turkish Republic, this article investigates the limits posed by theological underpinnings of citizenship to the rights and freedoms of religious minorities. This study approaches human rights issues and citizenship using the public theologies concept, which accounts for the temporal, spatial, substantive and spiritual aspects of the contemporary tension between rights and duties. The main argument is that unless the entire concept of citizenship is democratized in Turkey or in any other context, improvements in the rights of minority populations cannot last long.

Religion has been used by many scholars as an analytical category and an independent variable to account for the variances in governance and political violence. Very often, religion is decontextualized, resulting in confusions about the character of specific faith traditions. This article suggests an alternative framework by looking at the conceptualization and possible operationalization of the concept of public theology. In cases where "religion" might be conceptually ambivalent, a public theology framework with substantive, spiritual, spatial, and temporal dimensions can provide a sounder theorization of peaceful/violent or exclusive/inclusive strands of faith traditions and the relationship among them. Focusing on manifestations and public understandings instead of the religion itself, it also relieves political analysis from sensitive questions about what religious texts say and how traditions should be represented.