War and Religion in the Secular Age: Faith and Interstate Armed Conflict Onset

ISBN-13: 9781138337480 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str.

Davis Brown

Opis

Breaking new ground in political science, this book assesses both qualitatively and quantitively whether religion is a factor in initiating interstate armed conflict. Arguing that it is, Brown then explores how different religions have different effects.

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: How Religious War Ethics Translate to State Action  Chapter 3: Research Design, Independent Variable, and Preliminary Results  Chapter 4: The Restrictive War Ethic in Christianity  Chapter 5: The Permissive War Ethic in Islam  Chapter 6: The Bi-Modal War Ethic in Buddhism  Chapter 7: Conclusion

O autorze

Davis Brown is a Senior Research Associate at the Association of Religion Data Archives, a Non-Resident Fellow at Baylor University Institute for Studies of Religion, and is co-Principal Investigator of the Religious Characteristics of States dataset project.