Faith in Religion's Reconciling Power
Loramy Gerstbauer Wednesday, 1 September 2004
A review of Faith-based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik, edited by Douglas Johnston.
I met Douglas Johnston while on a dissertation research trip to Washington, DC not long after he had started the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy. His previous volume, Religion, the Missing Dimension of Statecraft, co-edited with Cynthia Sampson (Oxford, 1994), was at that time one of the few book length investigations of religious actors engaged in diplomacy. Since then, several important works have been published including those by R. Scott Appleby and Marc Gopin, both of whom have contributed chapters to this new edited volume. Faith-Based Diplomacy builds on and adds to Johnston's previous work in some important ways, and should be read by those interested not only in the theory but the practice of faith-based diplomacy.
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