Coauthors Monica Duffy Toft and Timothy Samuel Shah discuss their new book God’s Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics, coauthored with Daniel Philpott, as well as religion’s recent resurgence in political influence across the globe. This discussion is part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.

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Religion and modernity were never expected to go hand in hand, and for centuries they coexisted uncomfortably.

Listen to CFR Senior Fellows Daniel Markey and Timothy Samuel Shah discuss the interplay of politics and religion in India and Pakistan as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.

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Timothy Samuel Shah, a scholar on religious issues, says that when Pope Benedict XVI makes his first visit to the United States as pope, it will give Americans their first chance to hear firsthand his views on Iraq, the environment, and immigration.

Listen to Timothy Samuel Shah, the Council's adjunct senior fellow for religion and foreign policy, discuss the role of religion in promoting democracy as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.

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Listen to Father Mathew Kukah, vicar general of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, and John N. Paden, Clarence J. Robinson professor of international studies at George Mason University, discuss recent developments in the Islamic and Christian communities in Nigeria.

Watch Father Mathew Kukah, vicar general of the Catholic Archdiocese of Kaduna, and John N. Paden, Clarence J. Robinson professor of international studies at George Mason University, discuss recent developments in the Islamic and Christian communities in Nigeria.

This panel discussed the current religious dynamics between the two leading faith communities in Nigeria, Christianity and Islam.