Finding Faith in Foreign Policy
Religion and American Diplomacy in a Postsecular World
Gregorio Bettiza
Reviews and Awards
Honorable Mention, 2020 Book Award International Studies Association's Religion and International Relations Section
Special Mention of Excellence for the 2019 Alberigo Awards from the European Academy of Religion
"Much-needed contribution to the field...Bettiza's creative theoretical approach presents a multi-layered lens with profound explanatory power" -- Ashlyn W. Hand, Journal of Church and State
"Gregorio Bettiza makes an illuminating contribution... Bettizas book is an insightful investigation into the causes, structures, and effects of the growing engagement of US policymaking with religion. It also offers a thoughtful analysis and critique of the religionization of international relations." -- Axel R. Schäfer, Religion, State & Society
"This is a big book with an important argument: ambitious, erudite, and presented with great clarity. Students of religion, foreign policy, and world politics will be thinking with it, and contesting it, for many years to come." -- Daniel J. Levine, Religions
"Finding Faith in Foreign Policy broadens our understanding of the relationship between religion and politics ... Bettiza's book opens up several exciting areas for future research." -- Alexandra Domike Blackman, Perspectives on Politics
"Few studies ... systematically analyze the connections between faith-based groups and US foreign policymaking. Finding Faith in Foreign Policy works to fill this gap, shedding light on the complex relationships between religion and US foreign policy initiatives." -- Nukhet Sandal, International Studies Review
"In Finding Faith in Foreign Policy, Bettiza definitively documents the proliferation of religion across the United States' diplomatic bureaucracy in recent decades." -- David Buckley, International Studies Review
"This is progress from the tendency in existing scholarship to focus on controversies over religious freedom." -- David Buckley, International Studies Review
"an enduring summation of trends within the American foreign policy bureaucracy from the Cold War's end to our current, unstable period of international order." -- David Buckley, International Studies Review
"...[A] rigorous, insightful and stimulating account of the contemporary role of religion in American policy formation." -- James L. Guth, Furman University, Politics, Religion & Ideology
"The first Appendix alone is worth the price of admission and makes Finding Faith in Foreign Policy a new standard reference in any work on religion in American diplomacy." -- Robert J. Joustra, Redeemer University College, The Review of Faith and International Affairs
"the book triggers important debates and paves the way for future research on the emergence of foreign policy regimes in other countries as well as their effects on the international politics of religion...it provides a valuable opportunity to reflect on the revival of religion in North America and on how religion, state and politics interact." -- Anne Jenichen, Politics, Religion & Ideology