Focusing on the dilution of state sovereignty, this book examines how the crossing of state boundaries by religious movements leads to the formation of transnational civil society. It reveals the dual potential of religious movements as sources of peace and security as well as of violent conflict.

Rudolph, Susanne H | Piscatori, James

Preface -- Introduction: Religion, States, and Transnational Civil Society -- Self-Organization: From Society and from Below -- Trans-state Islam and Security -- Muslim Missionaries and African States -- Bridging the Gap Between Empowerment and Power in Latin America -- Faces of Catholic Transnationalism: In and Beyond France -- Hierarchy: From a Center and from Above -- Globalizing Catholicism and the Return to a "Universal" Church -- World Religions and National States: Competing Claims in East Asia -- Religious Resource Networks: Roman Catholic Philanthropy in Central and East Europe -- In Defense of Allah's Realm: Religion and Statecraft in Saudi Foreign Policy Strategy -- Reflections -- Dehomogenizing Religious Formations