Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: A Conceptual Framework
Chapter 1. Religion, Democracy, and the "Twin Tolerations"
Part II: Eastern Religions
Chapter 2. The Ironies of Confucianism
Chapter 3. Confucianism and Democracy
Chapter 4. Hinduism and Self-Rule
Chapter 5. Buddhism, Asian Values, and Democracy
Chapter 6. Burma's Quest for Democracy
Part III: Judaism and Christianity
Chapter 7. Judaism and Political Life
Chapter 8. The Catholic Wave
Chapter 9. The Pioneering Protestants
Chapter 10. The Ambivalent Orthodox
Chapter 11. Christianity: The Global Picture
Part IV: Islam
Chapter 12. Muslims and Democracy
Chapter 13. A Historical Overview
Chapter 14. Two Visions of Reformation
Chapter 15. The Challenge of Secularization
Chapter 16. The Sources of Enlightened Muslim Thought
Chapter 17. The Elusive Reformation
Chapter 18. The Silent Majority
Chapter 19. Faith and Modernity
Chapter 20. Terror, Islam, and Democracy
Epilogue: Does Democracy Need Religion
Index

About the Author

Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, is codirector, with Marc F. Plattner, of the International Forum for Democratic Studies. He is also coeditor, with Marc Plattner, of the Journal of Democracy and of other collections of essays available from Johns Hopkins, including The Global Resurgence of Democracy, Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, and The Global Divergence of Democracies. Philip J. Costopoulos is executive editor of the Journal of Democracy.

Reviews

A rich feast of the topic. -- Majid Tehranian Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies