Contents:1. Preface 2. Summary of the contents of the chapters 3. Why Focus on International Relations 4. Contextualizing the problem in the author's research background 5. Summary of the Argument 6. Christopher Hitchens and How Religion Poisons Everything 7. Eli Berman, Religious Terrorism and the Innocent Economist 8. International Relations and Religion's Return from Exile 9. Scott M. Thomas, Religion Resurging and International Relations 10. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd: The Politics of Secularism in International Relations 11. Some further theoretical implications Bibliography Index