Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Defining Religion's Role in Society Chapter 3 Religion in a Modern and Secular World Chapter 4 Is Religion the Symptom or the Disease? Chapter 5 Previous Approaches to the Study of Religion and Conflict Chapter 6 A More Comprehensive Theory of Religion and Conflict Chapter 7 The Role of Religion in Ethnoreligious Conflict Chapter 8 Some Implications and Clarifications
Jonathan Fox teaches in the department of political studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Jonathan Fox has admirably filled [a] gaping hole in the
literature. . . . He has constructed a finely nuanced and dynamic
theory of ethnoreligious conflict, elements of which will be useful
for understanding other kinds of conflict involving religious and
cultural issues. All students of the violently contested nature of
post-Cold War politics stand in his debt.
*R Scott Appleby, Institute for International Peace Studies,
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame*
This book engages one of the most important and pressing issues in
the world today. In this timely book, Jonathan Fox attempts to
interpret the extensive extant literature on religion and ethnic
conflict, create his own framework for the study of ethnoreligious
conflict, test such phenomena empirically, and generate a general
theory to account for them. I commend the author on a daring
attempt to synthesize such complex and abundant material.
*Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion*
Fox produces an original, highly formalized, refinement of the
theoretical framework, which is useful for constructing typologies
of ethnic and religious conflicts when dealing with such a wide
spectrum of data collected through empirical observation;
*Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review*
This foundational study puts academic speculation about the
religious sources of conflict in the modern world to empirical
test. Jonathan Fox develops a general theory of religion's social
functions, then shows where and how ethnically-distinct religious
minorities are prompted into political protest and rebellion by
discrimination, repression, and mobilizing religious institutions.
A nuanced analysis whose evidence challenges some conventional
pieties and affirms others.
*Ted Gurr, University of Maryland*
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