It is bad to doubt the overwhelming empirical evidence that religion matters to domestic politics as well as the delivery of social services. But it is far worse to treat religion as a back-burner reality in global affairs when it is boiling over in so many places. The State Department needs to wake up and smell the incense.
Monday, May 7, 2007
The secularization hypothesis - the idea that as societies modernize, religion will fade away - is false. John J. DiIulio Jr. explains that this has consequences for foreign policy:
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