Security, Religion, and the Rule of Law International Perspectives

"Security, Religion, and the Rule of Law: International Perspectives offers a multidisciplinary and multidimensional analysis of relationships between the paradigms of national security and freedom of religion. Employing rigorous argument through overarching chapters and a selection of case studies, the authors signal moves towards a positive understanding of the potential of freedom of religion to function as a healing mechanism in fractured polities, contextualising and undermining simplistic perceptions of religion as a threat to national and international security. This 'flipping of the coin' of voguishly negative discourse on the role of religion in society is important, overdue, and deserving of the widest readership."

Patrick Thornberry CMG, Emeritus Professor of International Law at Keele University, UK, and Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK