National Religions: How to be Both Under God and Under the European Union?
Religion may appear elusive in a European Union criticised for its abstraction, but the European context reinforces the national character of religions.
Is There a Religious Diversity Peace Dividend?
Religious diversity significantly reduces terrorism, which may provide empirical verification for claims that religious freedom increases political stability.
Inter-Religious Work for Peace through Globalised Transnational Civil Society
Inter-religious transnational actors, like Religions for Peace, are assisting in the creation of global civil society by involving women in community development.
The Religion Agenda: The Sahrawi Refugees and the Politics of Tolerance
Global advocacy for religious toleration has yielded mixed consequences for the Sahrawi refugees of Algeria by reproducing discourses purveyed by those in power
Education Reform and the Asian Values Debate
The emergence of tutoring businesses all across neighborhoods in the United States is the result of American policymakers’ obsession with test-based education reform.
Religion in the European Union: The Neglected Variable
Despite the secularisation of European politics and other changes in the religious environment, a confessional culture still affects movement towards European unity.
Whose God? A Human Rights Approach
The modern international human rights regime offers an alternative to secularism because it establishes standards for both state neutrality and engagement with religion.
The Geopolitics of Religious Liberty
Guided by the secularisation thesis, the field of international relations has been slow to recognise religion’s importance and has tended to ignore it until recently.
‘Nations under God’: Problems of Meaning in Contemporary Rhetoric
If there is so little clear content to such significant concepts as religion, politics, God, and so on, then from where do they derive their rhetorical power?
Why ‘theocracy’ Is a Failed Concept in IR
It’s time for IR scholars and policy makers to let go of the use of the term ‘theocracy’ to explain the dynamics of religion-led politics worldwide.
