Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion

1. Religious Pluralization and Intimations of a Post-Westphalian Condition in a Global Society
2. Resurgent Religion in Politics: The Martyr, the Convert and the Black Knight of Apocalypse
3. Religious, Political and Global
4. Complicating the “Clash of Civilizations”: Gender and Politics in Contemporary Kuwait
5. The “Social Integration” of Religious Groups in Society: A Social Mechanism Approach
6. Christian Religion in the West: Privatization or Public Revitalization?
7. The Cultural Foundations of Islamist Leadership in Morocco
8. The Protestant House Church and Its Poverty of Rights in China
9. Rethinking the Role of the Catholic Church in Building Civil Society in Contemporary China: The Case of Wenzhou Diocese
10. India: The Politics of (Re)conversion to Hinduism of Christian Aboriginals
11. Religion and Politics: The Italian Case
12. The Reciprocal Instrumentalization of Religion and Politics in Brazil
13. The Reinvention of Cuban Santería and the Politics of Identity
14. The Concept of Implicit Religion: What, When, How, and Why?

Over the past thirty years, religion has increasingly played a relevant role, both on a national level and in international affairs. The attempt made by politicians to reframe the policy of social cohesion in a neo-nationalist light (one land, one language, one religion = one political community), demising any kind of multiculturalism, facilitating instead a return to assimilation shaped by fear of the other (culture, religion, language, and so on), is very often associated with a restoration of the primacy of religious discourse in the public sphere. It is not just a return of religion in the public sphere, but the exploitation of religion by politics to reconstruct a social cohesion in the absence of ideological resources.