Civil society, religion and global governance : paradigms of power and persuasion / edited by Helen James.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : civil society, religion and global governance : the power and persuasiveness of civil society / Helen James -- National security : proportionality, restraint and common sense / Michael Kirby -- Human security, identity politics and global governance : from freedom from fear to fear of freedoms / Amitav Acharya -- A transcivilisational perspective on global issues in the twenty-first century : a way to overcome Euro-America-centric discourses on world affairs in the twenty-first century / Yasuaki Onuma -- The Anglican church, the state and modern warfare / Philip Towle -- Religion and the destruction of Aboriginal society : the paradox of Australian indigenous civil societies / Gordon Briscoe -- Church-state relations and civil society in former communist countries / Robert F. Miller -- War and the role of religion in a global civil society / Joseph Runzo -- Citizenship as consumption or citizenship as agency? : the challenge for civil society in Latin-America / Philip Oxhorn -- Corruption, institutions and transcultural interaction / Seumas Miller -- Postsecular civil society / Wayne Hudson -- Christian custom and the Church as structure in 'weak states' in Melanesia / Bronwen Douglas -- Governance, civil society and economic development : a view from the Pacific / Ron Duncan -- Community development and globalisation / Isagani Serrano -- Confronting Burma/Myanmar's security dilemma : an integrated approach to national and human security issues / Zar Ni -- The place of religion in the Iranian fertility transition / Peter McDonald, Md Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi -- Faith, NGOs and the politics of development in Bangladesh / Bina D'Costa -- Contesting 'globalisation from above' : international non-governmental organisations and the prospects for global social contract / Baogang He, Hannah Murphy -- Kifaya as political culture : the Egyptian presidential election, 2005 / Jacky Angus -- Religious-based civil society and anti-corruption campaign : the Indonesian experience in the creation of good governance / Azyumardi Azra -- Conclusion : paradigms of a more civil society / Helen James.

This is one of the first books to explore the nexus between civil society, religion, and global governance, their impact on human security and well-being, and significance for current debates in international politics. The contributors examine salient aspects of the secular state whose monopoly on, and control of, institutional violence has reified its use of power to such an extent that the modernistic separation of church and state is being called into question, as institutional limits are sought to the abuse of that power. The volume is clearly divided into six key sections: {u2022}human security and human rights {u2022}the politics of civil religion {u2022}the ethics of civil development {u2022}civil society and global governance {u2022}cross-cultural perspectives on institutional development for civil society {u2022}international civil society. Within these sections the illuminating case studies span a wide geographical extent from Central and Eastern Europe to Egypt, to Latin America, Iran, Bangladesh, Australia, the Pacific and East and Southeast Asia. Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance will be of strong interest to students, policy makers and researchers in the fields of human rights, religion, political science and sociology.