INTRODUCTION: WHY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?; PART ONE: INTIMATIONS; PART TWO: ACTS; PART THREE: PARTICULARS; CONCLUSION: WHITHER RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?; BIBLIOGRAPHY
Thomas F. Farr is Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and
International Affairs at Georgetown University's School of Foreign
Service, and Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion,
Peace, and World Affairs. A Ph.D. in history from the University of
North Carolina, Farr has also taught at West Point and the U.S. Air
Force Academy. He served for seven years in the U.S. Army, and
twenty-one years in the American Foreign Service. Prior to
leaving the Foreign Service to write and teach, he served as the
U.S. State Department's first Director of the Office of
International Religious Freedom. In this capacity he traveled the
world to engage with persecuting
governments, religious actors and their ideas, and the victims of
religious persecution.
"Thomas Farr's excellent and wide-ranging book demonstrates that
promoting religious freedom around the world is not just a good
thing in itself, but an indispensable foundation for a just and
sane foreign policy. Even better, his book is firmly based on years
of first-hand experience within government dealing with these very
issues." --Philip Jenkins, author of God's Continent: Christianity,
Islam, and Europe's Religious Crisis
"Our nation's founders understood that democracy cannot flourish
without religious liberty. Yet for many decades makers of U.S.
foreign policy have paid little heed to this truth. In his
thoughtful and insightful new book, Tom Farr, a veteran State
Department officer, reminds us of its importance. Devotion to the
free exercise of religion must play a central role if the United
States is to advance and protect its national interests and
exercise responsibly its
influence around the globe." --Robert P. George, McCormick
Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison
Program in American Ideals and institutions, Princeton
University
"The age of ideology has ended. A new age of religion is upon us, a
fact with enormous implications for American statecraft. For anyone
wanting to understand those implications, Thomas Farr's
path-breaking book is essential reading." --Andrew J. Bacevich,
author of The Limits of Power: The End of American
Exceptionalism
"Give this book to your member of Congress."--World Magazine
"Farr argues compellingly that his fellow career diplomats suffer
from a 'religious deficit'; they tend to prefer secularism and to
see religion only as a marginal force." --Christian Century
"The singular value of World of Faith and Freedom is that it grasps
the genius of the American creed--religious belief as a strong ally
of human rights and human reason--and defends its enduring
relevance in an age of religious terror."
--Weekly Standard
"Although a passionate believer in religious liberty, [Thomas Farr]
comes to the subject as a seasoned professional. Precisely from
that perspective he makes the case that for America to give
religious freedom its due in foreign policy would be not only
virtuous but smart -- realistic idealism at work."
--Catholic World Report
"Dr. Farr has written a very important book. ...The task that Tom
Farr sets himself in World of Faith and Freedom is both essential
and difficult: to change the corporate mind of the American foreign
policy establishment on the relationship between religious
conviction and world affairs, and on the role that promoting
religious freedom ought to play in U.S. foreign policy. His tone is
measured; his analyses are fair and balanced."
--Denver Catholic Register
[World of Faith and Freedom] serves as both a fine personal
recollection and an informative history of the embryonic phase of
the Offi ce of International Religious Freedom. But it is not
merely another inside-the-beltway memoir, for it also provides a fi
rst-rate argument for the contention expressed in its subtitle Why
International Religious Liberty Is Vital to American National
Security Farr makes a compelling case for placing the issue of
religious freedom at the center of American foreign policy. ...[It]
should be required reading for all Foreign Service officers and
State Department bureaucrats."
--Touchstone
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