Politics and Religion

Readings

• WEEK #: 2 · TOPICS: Social Scientific Approaches I · READINGS: Hamilton, Malcolm. The Sociology of Religion . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415226677.
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• Hamilton, Malcolm. The Sociology of Religion . 2nd ed. New York, NY: Routledge, 2001. ISBN: 9780415226677.
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• Iannaccone, Laurence R. “Introduction to the Economics of Religion.” Journal of Economic Literature 36, no. 3 (September 1998): 1465-1495.
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• Gill, Anthony. “The Political Origins of Religious Liberty: Initial Sketch of a General Theory.” The Political Origins of Religious Liberty . Draft book manuscript.
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• Berman, Eli. “Hamas, Taliban and the Jewish Underground: An Economist’s View of Radical Religious Militias.” NBER Working Paper 10004, October 2002.
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• Ruffle, Bradley, and Richard Sosis. “Does It Pay to Pray? Evaluating the Economic Return to Religious Ritual.” January 2004. Forthcoming.
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• Casanova, Jose. Public Religions in the Modern World . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780226095356.
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• Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, chapters 1-6. ISBN: 9780521548724.
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• Chen, Daniel. “Club Goods and Group Identity: Evidence from Islamic Resurgence During the Indonesian Financial Crisis.” February 2005. Forthcoming in American Economic Review .
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• Kalyvas, Stathis N. “Democracy and Religious Politics: Evidence from Belgium.” Comparative Political Studies 31, no. 3 (1998): 292-330.
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• Layman, Geoffrey, and Edward Carmines. “Religion and Political Behavior in the United States: The Impact of Beliefs, Affiliations, and Commitments from 1980 to 1994.” Public Opinion Quarterly 61, no. 2 (Spring 1997): 288-316.
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• White, Stephen, Ian McAllister, and Ol’ga Kryshtanovskaya. “Religion and Politics in Postcommunist Russia.” Religion, State, and Society 22, no. 1 (1994).
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• Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart. “Religious Parties and Electoral Behavior.” Chapter 9 in Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 196-212. ISBN: 9780521548724.
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• Lijphart, Arend. “Religious vs. Linguistic vs. Class Voting.” American Political Science Review 73, no. 2 (June 1979): 452-458.
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• Glaeser, Edward, and Giacomo Ponzetto. “Strategic Extremism: Why Republicans and Democrats Divide on Religious Values.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 120, no. 4 (November 2005): 1283-1330.
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• Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism . Revised ed. New York, NY: Verso, 2006. ISBN: 9781844670864.
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• Smith, Anthony. The Ethnic Origins of Nations. Reprint ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing Professional, 1991, especially chapters 1, 2, 5, 7, and 8. ISBN: 9780631161691.
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• Garrard-Burnett, Virginia. “Liberalism, Protestantism, and Indigenous Resistance in Guatemala, 1870-1920.” Latin American Perspectives 24, no. 1 (1997): 35-55.
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• Lustick, Ian. Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza . Reprint ed. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995, chapters 1-5, and 10. ISBN: 9780801480881.
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• Juergensmeyer, Mark. “The New Religious State.” Comparative Politics 27, no. 4 (July 1995): 379-91.
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• Barro, Robert, and Rachel McCleary. “Which Countries Have State Religions?” NBER Working Paper 10438, April 2004.
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• Burns, Gene. “The Politics of Ideology: The Papal Struggle with Liberalism.” American Journal of Sociology 95, no. 5 (March 1990): 1123-1152.
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• Gill, Anthony. “Rendering unto Caesar? Religious Competition and Catholic Political Strategy in Latin America, 1962-79.” American Journal of Political Science 38, no. 2 (1994): 403-25.
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• Demerath, N. J. “Religious Capital and Capital Religions: Cross-Cultural and Non-Legal Factors in the Separation of Church and State.” Daedalus 120, no. 3 (Summer 1991): 21-40.
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• Philpott, Daniel. “Explaining the Political Ambivalence of Religion.” Working Paper 77. Project on Religion, Political Economy, and Society. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, February 2006.
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• Taylor, Julie. “Prophet Sharing: Strategic Interaction Between Muslim Clerics and Middle Eastern Regimes.” Working Paper 79. Project on Religion, Political Economy, and Society. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, April 2006.
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• Casanova, Jose. Public Religions in the Modern World . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780226095356.
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• Wittenberg, Jason. Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2006, chapter 5. ISBN: 9780521849128.
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• Munson, Ziad. “Islamic Mobilization: Social Movement Theory and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.” The Sociological Quarterly 42, no. 4 (2001): 487-510.
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• Dunn, Elizabeth. “Money, Morality, and Modes of Civil Society Among American Mormon.” In Civil Society: Challenging Western Models . Edited by Chris Hann and Elizabeth Dunn. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996. ISBN: 9780415132190.
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• Norris, Pippa, and Ronald Inglehart, “Religious Organizations and Social Capital.” Chapter 8 in Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780521548724.
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• Huntington, Samuel P. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order . New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1996, chapters 1, 9, and 10. ISBN: 9780684811642.
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• Eickelman, Dale F. “Trans-State Islam and Security.” Chapter 1 in Transnational Religion and Fading States. Edited by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and James Piscatori. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780813327686.
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• Fox, Jonathan. “State Failure and the Clash of Civilizations: An Examination of the Magnitude and Extent of domestic Civilizational Conflict from 1950 to 1996.” Australian Journal of Political Science 38, no. 2 (2003): 195-213.
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• ———. “Two Civilizations and Ethnic Conflict: Islam and the West.” Journal of Peace Research 38, no. 4 (2001): 459-472.
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• Juergensmeyer, Mark. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, chapters 1, 7-11, and a couple of empirical chapters. ISBN: 9780520240117.
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• Krueger, Alan B., and Jitka Maleckova. “Education, Poverty, Political Violence, and Terrorism: Is There a Causal Connection?” Journal of Economic Perspectives (2003): 119-44.
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• Pape, Robert. Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism . New York, NY: Random House, 2005, chapters 1-6, and 9-10. ISBN: 9781400063178.
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• Iannaccone, Laurence R. “The Market for Martyrs.” (PDF) Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 2 (2006): 1-29. ↗
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