Peace & Piety
World of Faith and Freedom: Why International Religious Liberty Is Vital
to American National Security
by Thomas F. Farr
Oxford University Press, 2008
(384 pages, $29.95, hardcover)
reviewed by Keith Pavlischek
Thomas Farr served as a Foreign Service officer for twenty-one years before retiring to become a Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. In his last assignment, from 1999 to 2003, he served as the first Director of the Office of International Religious Freedom, which Congress created when it passed the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) in 1998.
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