This fully revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the many theories of religion
and politics and provides students with an accessible, in-depth guide to the subject's most …

We examined associations between two orientations based on historical group trauma, a
form of enduring group victimhood (Perpetual Ingroup Victimhood Orientation [PIVO]) and …

Deadly Clerics explains why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant jihadism
while most do not. The book explores multiple pathways of cleric radicalization and shows …

Executive summary The role of religion in conflict and peacebuilding has all too often been
depicted in binary terms: it is seen as a source either of violence or of reconciliation. This …

The last few years have witnessed an increase in democratic “backsliding” in the United
States—a decline in the quality of democracy, typically accompanied by an influx of non …

Despite a robust literature on general forms of state repression, the determinants of religious
repression remain unclear. This article argues that a regime's experience with religious …

The 'religion as cause'argument implies that religious faiths are more inherently prone to
violence than ideologies that are secular. Following an evaluation of the scientific literature …

Religious language is all around us, embedded in advertising, politics and news media. This
book introduces readers to the field of theolinguistics, the study of religious language …

Social media use is positively associated with political participation, but does this
relationship persist when traditional and social media are restricted by the government? We …

Objective: Emerging research on the moral licensing effect implies that increasing a person's
moral certainty may decrease concerns about the moral consequences of violent warfare …