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Please provide brief responses to the following questions, based on your own reading of the Learning Resources:

1. According to your overall impressions from the readings, how important is religion in determining identity, values, norms, and perceptual lens in some cultures (other than WEIRD cultures)?
2. According to Kartchner, why does it seem that the West has a "blindspot" when it comes to the influence that religion can have on the cultures of other countries? What precipitated a decline in the role of religion in the political life of Western cultures?
3. In what ways can religion impact identity, values, norms, and perceptual lens, according to Kartchner?
4. According to Shmuel Bar, if religion is a critical component of the motivations and modalities of Islamic terrorism, can it be resolved through solely secular means, as much of the Western counter-terrorism project assumes?
5. From the Adamsky reading, in what ways can religion relate to or validate the role of nuclear weapons as a manifestation of strategic culture?

Readings:

Kerry Kartchner, "Religion and Strategic Culture," in Routledge Handbook of Strategic Culture, Kerry M. Kartchner, Jeannie Johnson, and Briana Bowen, eds (London: Routledge, 2024).

Shmuel Bar, "The Religious Sources of Islamic Terrorism," Policy Review, No. 125 (June/July 2004).

Dmitry Adamsky, "How the Russian Church Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb: Orthodoxy's Influence on Moscow's Nuclear Complex," Foreign Affairs, June 2019.