Book review : Trump’s America: the political impact of Christian and secular nationalism by Haynes, Jeffrey

Book review : Imagining Judeo-Christian America: religion, secularism, and the redefinition of democracy by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Book review of: Imagining Judeo-Christian America: religion, secularism, and the redefinition of democracy / by K. …”
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Book review : A secular age beyond the west: religion, law and the state in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley and Shylashri Shankar by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…A book review of "A secular age beyond the west : religion, law and the state in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa" edited by Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley and Shylashri Shankar…”

Book review : Neoliberal citizenship: sacred markets, sacrificial lives by Luca Mavelli. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2022, 190 pp., £75 (hardback) ISBN 978-0-19-285758-3 by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…Also influenced by the Global Financial, Eurozone, and Covid-19 pandemic crises, Mavelli's book is an authoritative assessment of why, three decades after the Cold War, Europe is moulded by 'post-secularity'.…”
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Faith-based organisations, development and the World Bank by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…It argues that the main rationale for engagement with faith lay in the disappointing results of previous secular strategies and the feeling that religion had a positive role to play in fighting poverty. …”
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The United Nations Alliance of Civilisations and global justice by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…It is by convention and by design secular in orientation. Consequently, it seemed anomalous to establish UNAOC, an entity created to try to deal with widening civilisational divisions, especially between Muslims and Christians. …”
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Religion, morality, and democracy in Ghana by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…The paper argues that a close relationship between Ghana’s largest church, the Church of Pentecost (CoP), and the country’s two main political parties, the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress, threatens Ghana’s secular constitution and the country’s three decades of democracy in two ways. …”
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Introductory thoughts about peace, politics and religion by Haynes, Jeffrey

“…This was a surprise to many social scientists and confounded the expectations of both secularization theorists and secularists. In addition, religion retained a strong, some say growing, significance as a core source of identity for billions of people around the world. …”
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