Timothy Samuel Shah
Biographic Data
| ID | 3892001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Timothy Samuel Shah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Timothy Samuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Shah |
| SIGNATURE | SHAH T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta”: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations
Many people assume that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 was an exclusively or primarily Western project, imposed on the rest of the world by the European and American powers that emerged victorious from World War II. Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon’s 2001 book, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, suggests otherwise. It was not the great powers but small powers that pushed har…
The “Ashoka Approach” and Indonesian Leadership in the Movement for Pluralist Re-Awakening in South and Southeast Asia
Leaders of Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim organization, are working to consolidate South and Southeast Asia as an alternate pillar of support for a rules-based international order founded upon respect for the equal rights and dignity of every human being. Integral to this effort is a regional strategy called the “Ashoka Approach,” which seeks to reawaken the ancient spiritual, cultural, and socio-political heritage of the…
Institutional Religious Freedom in Full: What the Liberty of Religious Organizations Really Is and Why It Is an "Essential Service" to the Common Good
Should the freedom of churches and other religious institutions come down to little more than a grudging recognition that "what happens in the church, stays in the church"? In this article, I provide a more robust definition of what I call institutional religious freedom than a crabbed and merely negative understanding. In addition, I also go beyond a libertarian-style defense of institutional religious freedom as the ecclesiastical equivalent of…
India's Other Religious Freedom Problems
There is no doubt that India is far from perfect when it comes to religious freedom. Indeed, India's religious freedom problems have become an increasing focus of scholarly and policy attention. However, almost all of this attention is directed at one particular subset of religious freedom problems-i.e., restrictions imposed on the religious freedom of India's minority communities, and particularly Muslims and Christians. Meanwhile, serious relig…
Homo Religiosus: Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in Human Experience
Are humans naturally predisposed to religion and supernatural beliefs? If so, does this naturalness provide a moral foundation for religious freedom? This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to these questions, engaging in a range of contemporary debates at the intersection of religion, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, political science, epistemology, and moral philosophy. The contributors to this original and important volume …
In Response to Persecution: Essays from the Under Caesar’s Sword Project
Christianity and Freedom
In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of basic human rights and freedoms from antiquity through today. These include radical notions of dignity and equality, religious freedom, liberty of conscience, limited government, consent of the governed, economic liberty, autonomous civil society, and church-state separation, as well as more recent advances in democracy…
Christianity and Freedom: Volume 1, Historical Perspectives
In Defense of Religious Freedom: New Critics of a Beleaguered Human Right
Not so very long ago, the idea of religious freedom enjoyed all the self-evident virtue of a Norman Rockwell painting. Sure, Americans disagreed about what it meant in practice, leaving their Supreme Court to hash out the details. Still, however Americans differed in their religious beliefs, they espoused religious freedom and insisted that it cannot be government's job to promote any one religious sect over others or coerce anyone's conscience i…
Christianity and Freedom: Volume 2, Contemporary Perspectives
Volume 2 of Christianity and Freedom illuminates how Christian minorities and transnational Christian networks contribute to the freedom and flourishing of societies across the globe, even amidst pressure and violent persecution. Featuring unprecedented field research by some of the world's most distinguished scholars, it documents the outsized role of Christians in promoting human rights and religious freedom; fighting injustice; stimulating eco…
Evangelicalism and the Two Pluralisms
Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
In recent years, the importance of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has come precipitously into view. This book seeks both to interrogate the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship and to take the first steps towards its rectification. Drawing on the work of leading scholars across many disciplines as well as policy makers and analysts, this books aims to form an authoritative guide to the interconnections…
Response to William Cavanaugh, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jeffrey Haynes and David Martin
We are honored to have God's Century reviewed in this forum by four distinguished scholars, three of whom – David Martin, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jeffrey Haynes – are among those social scientists
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics
The hidden form of capital: Spiritual Influences in Societal Progress
"The Hidden Form of Capital presents evidence from several parts of the changing world about how the realm of the spirit affects the economy. The idea that societies have economic cultures as well as aesthetic, literary, and artistic cultures is well-embedded in a number of major studies attempting to identify the origins of national wealth and progress. This book provides an original contribution to the debate, by discussing the relationship bet…
The Bible and the Ballot Box: Evangelicals and Democracy in the "Global South"
Is the evangelical God a democrat? Are his half a billion worshipers in the "global South" missionaries for democracy—or an illiberal "new Christendom"? Despite both exaggerated fears and inflated hopes, evangelical Christians in the global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) are unlikely to bring dramatic political change—whether in a democratic or authoritarian direction—to their unsettled societies. Though evangelicals are assumed to be ag…
Christianity and Democracy: The Pioneering Protestants
According to cross-national research, Protestantism has significantly contributed to global democratization. While Protestantism does not inevitably cause democratization, it often generates social dynamics that favor it. Some of the most important of these are: 1) the rise of religious pluralism; 2) the development of democratic theory and practice; 3) the development of civil society; 4) the spread of mass education; 5) printing and the origins…
Making the Christian World Safe for Liberalism: From Grotius to Rawls
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics
Christianity and Democracy: The Pioneering Protestants
According to cross-national research, Protestantism has significantly contributed to global democratization. While Protestantism does not inevitably cause democratization, it often generates social dynamics that favor it. Some of the most important of these are: 1) the rise of religious pluralism; 2) the development of democratic theory and practice; 3) the development of civil society; 4) the spread of mass education; 5) printing and the origins…
Institutional Religious Freedom in Full: What the Liberty of Religious Organizations Really Is and Why It Is an "Essential Service" to the Common Good
Should the freedom of churches and other religious institutions come down to little more than a grudging recognition that "what happens in the church, stays in the church"? In this article, I provide a more robust definition of what I call institutional religious freedom than a crabbed and merely negative understanding. In addition, I also go beyond a libertarian-style defense of institutional religious freedom as the ecclesiastical equivalent of…
Making the Christian World Safe for Liberalism: From Grotius to Rawls
Evangelicalism and the Two Pluralisms
In Response to Persecution: Essays from the Under Caesar’s Sword Project
Making the Christian World Safe for Liberalism: From Grotius to Rawls
The Bible and the Ballot Box: Evangelicals and Democracy in the "Global South"
Is the evangelical God a democrat? Are his half a billion worshipers in the "global South" missionaries for democracy—or an illiberal "new Christendom"? Despite both exaggerated fears and inflated hopes, evangelical Christians in the global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) are unlikely to bring dramatic political change—whether in a democratic or authoritarian direction—to their unsettled societies. Though evangelicals are assumed to be ag…
Christianity and Democracy: The Pioneering Protestants
According to cross-national research, Protestantism has significantly contributed to global democratization. While Protestantism does not inevitably cause democratization, it often generates social dynamics that favor it. Some of the most important of these are: 1) the rise of religious pluralism; 2) the development of democratic theory and practice; 3) the development of civil society; 4) the spread of mass education; 5) printing and the origins…
The hidden form of capital: Spiritual Influences in Societal Progress
"The Hidden Form of Capital presents evidence from several parts of the changing world about how the realm of the spirit affects the economy. The idea that societies have economic cultures as well as aesthetic, literary, and artistic cultures is well-embedded in a number of major studies attempting to identify the origins of national wealth and progress. This book provides an original contribution to the debate, by discussing the relationship bet…
God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics
Rethinking Religion and World Affairs
In recent years, the importance of religion in the study and conduct of international affairs has come precipitously into view. This book seeks both to interrogate the problematic neglect of religion in extant scholarship and to take the first steps towards its rectification. Drawing on the work of leading scholars across many disciplines as well as policy makers and analysts, this books aims to form an authoritative guide to the interconnections…
Response to William Cavanaugh, Mark Juergensmeyer, Jeffrey Haynes and David Martin
We are honored to have God's Century reviewed in this forum by four distinguished scholars, three of whom – David Martin, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Jeffrey Haynes – are among those social scientists
Christianity and Freedom
In Volume 1 of Christianity and Freedom, leading historians uncover the unappreciated role of Christianity in the development of basic human rights and freedoms from antiquity through today. These include radical notions of dignity and equality, religious freedom, liberty of conscience, limited government, consent of the governed, economic liberty, autonomous civil society, and church-state separation, as well as more recent advances in democracy…
Christianity and Freedom: Volume 1, Historical Perspectives
In Defense of Religious Freedom: New Critics of a Beleaguered Human Right
Not so very long ago, the idea of religious freedom enjoyed all the self-evident virtue of a Norman Rockwell painting. Sure, Americans disagreed about what it meant in practice, leaving their Supreme Court to hash out the details. Still, however Americans differed in their religious beliefs, they espoused religious freedom and insisted that it cannot be government's job to promote any one religious sect over others or coerce anyone's conscience i…
Christianity and Freedom: Volume 2, Contemporary Perspectives
Volume 2 of Christianity and Freedom illuminates how Christian minorities and transnational Christian networks contribute to the freedom and flourishing of societies across the globe, even amidst pressure and violent persecution. Featuring unprecedented field research by some of the world's most distinguished scholars, it documents the outsized role of Christians in promoting human rights and religious freedom; fighting injustice; stimulating eco…
Evangelicalism and the Two Pluralisms
In Response to Persecution: Essays from the Under Caesar’s Sword Project
Homo Religiosus: Exploring the Roots of Religion and Religious Freedom in Human Experience
Are humans naturally predisposed to religion and supernatural beliefs? If so, does this naturalness provide a moral foundation for religious freedom? This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to these questions, engaging in a range of contemporary debates at the intersection of religion, cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, political science, epistemology, and moral philosophy. The contributors to this original and important volume …
The “Ashoka Approach” and Indonesian Leadership in the Movement for Pluralist Re-Awakening in South and Southeast Asia
Leaders of Indonesia’s Nahdlatul Ulama, the world’s largest Muslim organization, are working to consolidate South and Southeast Asia as an alternate pillar of support for a rules-based international order founded upon respect for the equal rights and dignity of every human being. Integral to this effort is a regional strategy called the “Ashoka Approach,” which seeks to reawaken the ancient spiritual, cultural, and socio-political heritage of the…
Institutional Religious Freedom in Full: What the Liberty of Religious Organizations Really Is and Why It Is an "Essential Service" to the Common Good
Should the freedom of churches and other religious institutions come down to little more than a grudging recognition that "what happens in the church, stays in the church"? In this article, I provide a more robust definition of what I call institutional religious freedom than a crabbed and merely negative understanding. In addition, I also go beyond a libertarian-style defense of institutional religious freedom as the ecclesiastical equivalent of…
India's Other Religious Freedom Problems
There is no doubt that India is far from perfect when it comes to religious freedom. Indeed, India's religious freedom problems have become an increasing focus of scholarly and policy attention. However, almost all of this attention is directed at one particular subset of religious freedom problems-i.e., restrictions imposed on the religious freedom of India's minority communities, and particularly Muslims and Christians. Meanwhile, serious relig…
Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta”: Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations
Many people assume that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 was an exclusively or primarily Western project, imposed on the rest of the world by the European and American powers that emerged victorious from World War II. Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon’s 2001 book, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, suggests otherwise. It was not the great powers but small powers that pushed har…
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