Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Religions, paradigms, and international relations -- A brief overview of the current state of religion in international relations thought -- Approaches to integrating religion into international relations theory -- Goals, structure, and methodology -- 2 Religion and its influence in the international arena -- The multiple influences of religion -- Religious worldviews -- Religious legitimacy -- Religious states -- Non-state religious actors -- Local religious issues and phenomena cross borders -- Transnational religious movements -- Transnational religious issues -- Religious identity -- 3 Religion and Classical Realism: interactions within power politics -- Religious worldviews and Classical Realism -- Religious legitimacy and Classical Realism -- Non-state religious actors and Classical Realism -- Religious states and Classical Realism -- Transnational religious actors and Classical Realism -- Transnational religious issues and Classical Realism -- Religious identity and Classical Realism -- Religion and Classical Realism: interactions within power politics -- 4 Religion and Neorealism: interactions within the international system -- Religious worldviews and Neorealism -- Religious legitimacy and Neorealism -- Non-state religious actors and Neorealism -- Religious states and Neorealism -- Transnational religious actors and Neorealism -- Transnational religious issues and Neorealism -- Religion and Neorealism: interactions within the international system -- 5 Religion and (Neo)liberalism: interactions within the market of ideas -- Religious worldviews and Neoliberalism -- Religious legitimacy and Neoliberalism -- Non-state religious actors and Neoliberalism -- Religious states and Neoliberalism -- Transnational religious actors and Neoliberalism.

Transnational religious issues and Neoliberalism -- Religious identity and Neoliberalism -- Religion and (Neo)liberalism: interactions within the market -- 6 Religion and the English School: interactions within international society -- Religious worldviews and the English School 119 -- Religious legitimacy and the English School -- Non-state religious actors and the English School -- Religious states and the English School -- Transnational religious actors and the English School -- Transnational religious issues and the English School -- Religious identity and the English School -- Religion and the English School: interactions in international society -- 7 Religion and Constructivism: interactions, ideas, and identities -- Religious worldviews and Constructivism -- Religious legitimacy and Constructivism -- Non-state religious actors and Constructivism -- Religious states and Constructivism -- Transnational religious actors and Constructivism -- Transnational religious issues and Constructivism -- Religious identity and Constructivism -- Religion and Constructivism: norms, meanings, and narratives -- 8 Religion in international relations theory: interactions and prospects -- Religious worldviews and international relations theory -- Religious legitimacy and international relations theory -- Non-state religious actors and international relations theory -- Religious states and international relations theory -- Transnational religious actors and international relations theory -- Transnational religious movements and international relations theory -- Religious identity and international relations theory -- Some final thoughts -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Recently, there have been increasing efforts to grapple with understanding religion within a discipline which has been dominantly secular from its inception. Yet, only a few of the existent works have attempted to integrate religion into core international relations theories such as Classical Realism, Structural (Neo) Realism, Neo-Liberalism, and the English school. This work seeks to assess whether an understanding of religion can be systematically integrated into these theories without losing the core insights these theories already bring to international relations.

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