Table of Contents

1. Preface 2. Summary of the contents of the chapters 3. Why Focus on International Relations 4. Contextualizing the problem in the author's research background 5. Summary of the Argument 6. Christopher Hitchens and How Religion Poisons Everything 7. Eli Berman, Religious Terrorism and the Innocent Economist 8. International Relations and Religion's Return from Exile 9. Scott M. Thomas, Religion Resurging and International Relations 10. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: the Politics of Secularism in International Relations 11. Some further theoretical implications Bibliography Index

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Critical analysis of the modern myth of 'religion' and its distinction from 'secular politics' as it appears in recent International Relations literature.

About the Author

Timothy Fitzgerald is Reader in Religion at the University of Stirling, UK. He is the author of The Ideology of Religious Studies (2000).

Reviews

Fitzgerald makes an outstanding contribution to the scholarly study of the role and place of religion and the religious in international relations, and of their interactions with politics and the political.
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