This new volume examines the relationship between religion and politics from a historical perspective

1: "Something as Yet Unfinished": Carl Becker and the Liberal Paradox; 2: Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the Necessity of Political Theology; 3: Escape from Theology: Theistic and Nontheistic Religion in the Socialist Humanism of Erich Fromm; 4: The Persistence of Civil Religion in Modern Canada; 5: The Politicization of Hinduism and the Hinduization of Politics: Contrasting Hindu Nationalism with the Transformative Visions of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi; 6: Ontology, Plurality, and Roman Catholic Social Teaching: An Engagement with Liberation Theology; 7: The Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals and Church-State Conflict; 8: Thomas Aquinas on Providence, Prudence, and Natural Law; 9: The Mystical Body of Christ and French Catholic Action, 1926-1949; 10: Secularism in Turkey: An Analysis of the Impact of Justice and Development Party's Policies on the Secularist State Structure