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Political Science | Religion, Politics & State Book List

Cover of 'Religion and Peace'

Religion and Peace
Global Perspectives and Possibilities
Edited by Nukhet A. Sandal and Ingo Trauschweizer

If religion can foment conflict, it can also cultivate peace. This perspective underpins the essays in this book, which explore the past, present, and future roles of religion and spirituality in transforming political and social conflicts between and within nations.

Cover of 'The Saints and the State'

The Saints and the State
The Mormon Troubles in Illinois
By James Simeone

James Simeone’s case study uncovers in the 1846 expulsion of Mormons from Illinois an important object lesson for American democracy today, revealing the impossibility of state neutrality in the face of entrenched group beliefs and segregated settlement.

Winner, the 2017 Adele E. Clarke Book Award from Repronetwork
Cover of 'The Politics of Morality'

The Politics of Morality
The Church, the State, and Reproductive Rights in Postsocialist Poland
By Joanna Mishtal

The Politics of Morality is an anthropological study of the expansion of power of the religious right in postsocialist Poland and its effects on individual rights and social mores.