Download or read book World of Faith and Freedom written by Thomas F. Farr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most trouble spots have some sort of religious component, from Iraq and Afghanistan to Israel and Palestine. These conflicts are of great geo-political importance and of interest to the US. Yet, argues Farr, our foreign policy is handicapped by an inability to understand the role of religion in these places.