DEFENDING FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN CONFLICT-TORN COUNTRIES: A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPT (1998-2013)

Dominique Cadinot (1, 2)

1 LERMA - Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone
2 AMU - Aix Marseille Université

When President Clinton signed into law the International Religious Freedom Act in 1998, he provided the members of the religious right with a unique opportunity to promote their vision of the world through the publication of annual reports assessing religious freedom worldwide. This paper presents a critical analysis of the Commission " s reports (1998-2013) on sectarian strife in Egypt and discusses the ideological implications of the discourse adopted by the commissioners. In a second step, this discourse will be confronted to the arguments put forward by members of minority groups who oppose any legislation establishing the US as the religious police of the world.

Keywords: religious freedom; evangelical Christianity; US Foreign policy; Egypt; Coptic Church

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Religions; Humanities and Social Sciences; History

Dominique Cadinot. DEFENDING FREEDOM OF RELIGION IN CONFLICT-TORN COUNTRIES: A BRIEF ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPT (1998-2013). Both Swords and Ploughshares: Interactions of War, Peace, and Religion in America from the War of Independence to the Present, 2015. ⟨hal-01415633⟩