World of Faith and Freedom

Thomas A. Farr starts from the observation that almost every trouble spot in the world has a religious element. Places such as Turkey, India, Pakistan, Russia and China, along with Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, show where religious tensions carry real geopolitical weight.

Behind the national disputes lies the wider problem of regional Islamist extremism and transnational Islamist terrorism. Farr asks how religious liberty, as a policy question, connects with these pressures and with the security concerns of the United States.

The book will interest policy analysts, students of international relations and general readers who follow the place of religion in world politics. Its focus is on the security case for religious freedom, which makes it narrower than a general history of religion.

Edition note: published by Oxford University Press. ISBN-13: 9780195179958.