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Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2005

Mark Amstutz
Mark Amstutz
Affiliation:
Wheaton College
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Freeing God's Children: The Unlikely Alliance for Global Human Rights. By Allen D. Hertzke. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 440p. $27.95.

Contemporary international relations scholarship has generally disregarded the role of religion in global politics. The two dominant IR paradigms—neorealism and neoliberalism—tend to neglect religion altogether, assuming that religious beliefs and institutions are an impediment to world order. To a significant degree, the skepticism about religion is rooted in the prevailing Western assumption that science and reason will make religion unnecessary in modern life. However, contrary to the prevailing wisdom, the world has not become more secular. Rather, religion has become more prominent in society, especially in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. As a result, the leading secular IR paradigms have failed to take into account the religious dimension in international affairs.

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BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 947 - 948
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© 2005 American Political Science Association

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