As religion and politics become ever more intertwined, relationships between religion and political parties are of increasing global political significance. This handbook responds to that development, providing important results of current research involving religion and politics.

IntroductionJeffrey HaynesPART I Core issues and topics 1 The next Middle Ages: religion and political cultureManlio Graziano2 Religion, state and nation: Islamic parties between ideology and religion Jocelyne Cesari3 Religion and society David Herbert4 Religion, modernisation and secularisation Steven KettellPART II New debates 5 Religious fundamentalism Luca Ozzano6 Religion, democratisation and democracy Jeffrey Haynes7 Religion and party platform formation Esen Kirdis8 Religion, social constituency representation and interest articulation Nil S. Satana, Alperen Özkan and Jóhanna K. Birnir9 The politics of being Muslim and female: religion, feminism and hierarchies of knowledgeSariya Cheruvallil-Contractor10 Religious violence and political parties Mark Juergensmeyer11 Conflict resolution and peacebuilding Christine SchliesserPART III Country case studies Asia 12 Religious violence and political agenda setting in post-colonial South Asian states: why political parties fail Subrata K. Mitra and La Toya Waha13 Political parties and religion in Myanmar Kristian Stokke14 Religious political parties in Pakistan Muqarrab AkbarThe Americas 15 Religion and political parties in America Allen D. Hertzke16 Religion and political parties in Brazil Linsey Moddelmog and Pedro A.G. dos Santos17 Religion and political parties in Mexico Luis Felipe MantillaEurope 18 The Politics of Religion in Germany, 1945 to the presentSabrina P. Ramet19 Religion and political parties: the case of Italy Alberta Giorgi20 Religion and political parties in Poland Katarzyna Dos´piał-BorysiakSub-Saharan Africa 21 Old and new alliances: Christian churches and the African National Congress in South Africa Barbara Bompani22 Religion and political parties in Zambia Austin Cheyeka23 Religions and political parties in Senegal (1980–2018) El Hadji Samba Amadou Diallo24 Nigeria Toyin Falola and Chukwuemeka AgboThe Middle East and North Africa 25 Israel: political parties Hayim Katsman and Guy Ben-Porat26 Religion and politics in Palestine: the case of Hamas Benedetta Berti27 Turkey: the contested role of Islam and pro-Islamic parties Sultan Tepe28 Islam and factional politics in Iran Paola Rivetti29 Religion and political parties in Tunisia Francesco Cavatorta and Fabio Merone30 Moroccan constitutional reform and Islamism(s): renegotiating the role of religion in the political field Emanuela Dalmasso31 Egypt Sumita Pahwa