Religion and Human Security

Religion and Human Security: A Global Perspective edited by James K. Wellman, Jr. and Clark B. Lombardi embarks on an ambitious project to understand the ‘importance of religion to the human security situation around the world’ through a series of case studies and to ‘provide lessons for policymakers as they think about how to develop security-promotion policies’. This project is timely given the ‘recent global religious revival’ as well as increased proliferation of global conflict. In examining the role of religious actors in promoting or undermining human security, the authors work toward a shared understanding of ‘human security’. The concept finds its initial roots, according to the editors, in Franklin Roosevelt’s ‘Four Freedoms Speech’ (Roosevelt 1941) in which he articulates a vision of securing freedom of speech and religion and freedom from fear and want. These aspirations later found their way, in varying degrees, into the animating direction of the...

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