Religion and the Cold War: a global perspective

The lines of armed conflict, and the catastrophic perils they portended, were shaped with shocking clarity in the immediate aftermath of World War II.

Less clear is the role religious ideology played in the conflicts that defined the Cold War era.

Philip Muehlenbeck assembles a team of specialists to explore how religion informed the ideological and military clashes across the globe in the second half of the 20th century.