Joshua’s Reviews > Holy Wars and Holy Alliance: The Return of Religion to the Global Political Stage > Status Update

This book is a fascinating, and in many ways indispensable volume in tracing the role of religion in the public square, especially since the 1970s. I think the role he grants to the hierarchy of the Catholic church is likely overstated, however. Consider statements like, "Among the great religions of the world only the Catholic church is institutionally involved in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue." T

"(T)he geopolitics of religions deserves to be a specific and separate discipline, devoted entirely to analyzing the interplay of politics and religious trends using a geopolitical approach. (3)