Peter Mandaville is Senior Advisor for Religion & Inclusive Societies at the United States Institute of Peace and Professor of International Affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. From 2015-2016 he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Religion and Global Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Previous government experience includes serving as a member of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff from 2011 to 2012, where he helped shape the U.S. response to the Arab Spring.

Religious soft power is often alluded to but rarely clarified. This book changes things: the contributors focus on religious soft power in a number of theoretical and empirical contexts and collectively shed much light on the phenomenon. Henceforward, researchers and scholars will have a 'go to' book, to clarify what we mean when we refer to religious soft power. Highly recommended.

• Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1. Thinking about Religion and Religious Soft Power in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis Peter Mandaville and Jon Hoffman 2. Tragedy or Irony: Geopolitical Grand Narratives, Religious Outreach, and US Soft PowerPeter S. Henne and Gregorio Bettiza 3. <"Putin-phonia> ": Harnessing Russian Orthodoxy to Advance Russia's Secular Foreign PolicyRobert Blitt 4. Chinese Buddhism and Soft Power and Sharp Power: Geopolitical Strategy and Modality of ReligionYoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank 5. Turkey's Ambivalent Religious Soft Power in the Illiberal TurnAhmet Erdi Öztürk 6. The Modi Government and the Uses and Limits of India's Religious Soft PowerSumit Ganguly 7. Shi'i Diplomacy: Religious Identity and Foreign Policy in the Axis of ResistanceEdward Wastnidge 8. Hassan II and the Foundations of Moroccan Religious Soft PowerAnn Wainscott 9. Religious Diplomacy in the Arab Gulf and the Politics of Moderate IslamAnnelle Sheline 10. Indonesian Islam as Model for the World? Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Geopolitics of 'Moderate Islam'James Hoesterey 11. Moderation as Jordanian Soft Power: Islam and BeyondStacey Gutkowski 12. Israel's Religious Soft Power: Within and Beyond JudaismClaudia Baumgart-Ochse 13. Soft Power of the Catholic PapacyTimothy Byrnes 14. 'Brazil Above Everything or God Above Everyone?' The Sources of Brazil's Religious Soft PowerGuilherme Casarões and Amy Erica Smith 15. Religious Soft Power: Promises, Limits, and Ways Forward Gregorio Bettiza and Peter S. Henne

Peter Mandaville is Senior Advisor for Religion & Inclusive Societies at the United States Institute of Peace and Professor of International Affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. From 2015-2016 he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Religion and Global Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Previous government experience includes serving as a member of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff from 2011 to 2012, where he helped shape the U.S. response to the Arab Spring.

Religious soft power is often alluded to but rarely clarified. This book changes things: the contributors focus on religious soft power in a number of theoretical and empirical contexts and collectively shed much light on the phenomenon. Henceforward, researchers and scholars will have a 'go to' book, to clarify what we mean when we refer to religious soft power. Highly recommended.

• Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1. Thinking about Religion and Religious Soft Power in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis Peter Mandaville and Jon Hoffman 2. Tragedy or Irony: Geopolitical Grand Narratives, Religious Outreach, and US Soft PowerPeter S. Henne and Gregorio Bettiza 3. <"Putin-phonia> ": Harnessing Russian Orthodoxy to Advance Russia's Secular Foreign PolicyRobert Blitt 4. Chinese Buddhism and Soft Power and Sharp Power: Geopolitical Strategy and Modality of ReligionYoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank 5. Turkey's Ambivalent Religious Soft Power in the Illiberal TurnAhmet Erdi Öztürk 6. The Modi Government and the Uses and Limits of India's Religious Soft PowerSumit Ganguly 7. Shi'i Diplomacy: Religious Identity and Foreign Policy in the Axis of ResistanceEdward Wastnidge 8. Hassan II and the Foundations of Moroccan Religious Soft PowerAnn Wainscott 9. Religious Diplomacy in the Arab Gulf and the Politics of Moderate IslamAnnelle Sheline 10. Indonesian Islam as Model for the World? Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Geopolitics of 'Moderate Islam'James Hoesterey 11. Moderation as Jordanian Soft Power: Islam and BeyondStacey Gutkowski 12. Israel's Religious Soft Power: Within and Beyond JudaismClaudia Baumgart-Ochse 13. Soft Power of the Catholic PapacyTimothy Byrnes 14. 'Brazil Above Everything or God Above Everyone?' The Sources of Brazil's Religious Soft PowerGuilherme Casarões and Amy Erica Smith 15. Religious Soft Power: Promises, Limits, and Ways Forward Gregorio Bettiza and Peter S. Henne

Peter Mandaville is Senior Advisor for Religion & Inclusive Societies at the United States Institute of Peace and Professor of International Affairs in the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. From 2015-2016 he was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Religion and Global Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Previous government experience includes serving as a member of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Policy Planning Staff from 2011 to 2012, where he helped shape the U.S. response to the Arab Spring.

Religious soft power is often alluded to but rarely clarified. This book changes things: the contributors focus on religious soft power in a number of theoretical and empirical contexts and collectively shed much light on the phenomenon. Henceforward, researchers and scholars will have a 'go to' book, to clarify what we mean when we refer to religious soft power. Highly recommended.

• Acknowledgments List of Contributors 1. Thinking about Religion and Religious Soft Power in International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis Peter Mandaville and Jon Hoffman 2. Tragedy or Irony: Geopolitical Grand Narratives, Religious Outreach, and US Soft PowerPeter S. Henne and Gregorio Bettiza 3. <"Putin-phonia> ": Harnessing Russian Orthodoxy to Advance Russia's Secular Foreign PolicyRobert Blitt 4. Chinese Buddhism and Soft Power and Sharp Power: Geopolitical Strategy and Modality of ReligionYoshiko Ashiwa and David L. Wank 5. Turkey's Ambivalent Religious Soft Power in the Illiberal TurnAhmet Erdi Öztürk 6. The Modi Government and the Uses and Limits of India's Religious Soft PowerSumit Ganguly 7. Shi'i Diplomacy: Religious Identity and Foreign Policy in the Axis of ResistanceEdward Wastnidge 8. Hassan II and the Foundations of Moroccan Religious Soft PowerAnn Wainscott 9. Religious Diplomacy in the Arab Gulf and the Politics of Moderate IslamAnnelle Sheline 10. Indonesian Islam as Model for the World? Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Geopolitics of 'Moderate Islam'James Hoesterey 11. Moderation as Jordanian Soft Power: Islam and BeyondStacey Gutkowski 12. Israel's Religious Soft Power: Within and Beyond JudaismClaudia Baumgart-Ochse 13. Soft Power of the Catholic PapacyTimothy Byrnes 14. 'Brazil Above Everything or God Above Everyone?' The Sources of Brazil's Religious Soft PowerGuilherme Casarões and Amy Erica Smith 15. Religious Soft Power: Promises, Limits, and Ways Forward Gregorio Bettiza and Peter S. Henne