An Introduction to International Relations and Religion

Haynes, Jeffrey

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“…The study of religion has generally been maintained within specialist departments and Anthropology in the UK. Since the millennium, however, interest in religion has grown across the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences domestically and across Western academia (Beck 2010;Brace 2011;Habermas, Benedict XVI, and Schuller 2006;Haynes 2007). This trend is reflected by the investment by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Economic and Social Research Council in the Religion and Society Programme and the range of disciplines involved (31 at last count).…”

Section: Religion In Modern Britain and Its Studymentioning

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What can we say about today's British religious young person? Findings from the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme

Catto

2013

Religion

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Since the late 20th century, research linking youth and religion has begun to grow. Such growth has been given a particular boost in the UK by the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme. This article addresses what we can say about today's British religious young person through review of new research findings from the Programme. One certainly can no longer assume that a British religious young person is a practising Christian. He or she is likely to engage with a range of offline and online resources in order to learn more about their faith, and feel some tensions between their commitments and engagement with wider society. Social class and other factors will affect his or her capacity to engage with religion and civil society. Like their non-religious peers, today's British religious young person values relationships and authenticity. Tensions between structure and agency in our neoliberal age emerge through their stories.

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Section: Religion In Modern Britain and Its Studymentioning

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What can we say about today's British religious young person? Findings from the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme

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2013

Religion

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“…Whilst scholars still debate the extent of secularisation in the West, there is broad agreement that religiosity has evolved. Many have turned away from church attendance and been attracted by new, more personal, expressions of spirituality [78,[80][81][82][83]-and Tolstoy's critique of the church may well resonate with the views of those who have consciously moved away from the church, as well as with atheists and religious sceptics. That said, Tolstoy was not interested in spirituality but in morality.…”

Section: Tolstoyan Anticlericalism Todaymentioning

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Leo Tolstoy’s Anticlericalism in Its Context and Beyond: A Case against Churches and Clerics, Religious and Secular

Christoyannopoulos

2016

Religions

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Abstract:In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy wrote numerous books, essays and pamphlets expounding his newly-articulated views on violence, the state, the church, and on how to improve the human condition. Since then, these "Christian anarchist" views have often been dismissed as utopian or naive, and, despite inspiring many activists and intellectuals, often forgotten or ignored. Some of those views and arguments, however, arguably remain apposite today-and can in some cases be applied to broader phenomena than those he identified. This article focuses on one of the aspects of his Christian anarchist thought: his anticlericalism. The first Section recounts the evolution of Tolstoy's views on religion and the church, and briefly describes Tolstoy's peculiar metaphysics. The second outlines his main charges against the church, discusses some common objections to it, and considers the continuing relevance of his anticlericalism. The third seeks to secularise his anticlerical arguments by applying them beyond the church, against secular preachers and institutions, and does so by reflecting on the quality of debate in the contemporary public sphere, on the hypocritical distance between the morality preached by secular "clerics" and their practice, and on the steady process of ossification and betrayal which befalls secular political ideals. The article thus contributes to the literature firstly by summarising, discussing and reflecting upon the anticlericalism of a famous writer who also espoused controversial religious and political views; secondly by succinctly outlining his idiosyncratic metaphysics, including his peculiar reinterpretation of traditional Christian referents; and thirdly by applying the arguments that informed his criticisms of the church to a broader variety of religious and secular secular institutions.

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“…Prominent scholars like Eric O. Hanson [7] and Jeffrey Haynes [8,9] provided comprehensive and persuasive frameworks for the study of religions in the international relations.…”

Section: Religions and Globalizationmentioning

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The Concept of Periphery in Pope Francis’ Discourse: A Religious Alternative to Globalization?

Ferrara

2015

Religions

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Abstract:Since the beginning of his mandate, Pope Francis has used the concept of periphery as a metaphor of social marginality. However, the notion of periphery also seems to target the asymmetries generated by the liberal version of globalization. Pope Francis' narrative has to be read in the broader context of the relation between religions and globalization. That interaction is usually conceptualized in terms of religions capitalizing on global "vectors", such as new information and communication technologies, processes of political and institutional integration, shared cultural patterns, transnational phenomena and organizations. An alternative way to analyze the role of religions consists in considering them as agencies defending the perspective of a universal community, putting into question the national political boundaries and contesting the existing global order. Understood in those terms, the concept of periphery reveals to be a powerful rhetoric device, insofar as it suggests that it is possible to get a wider perspective of the current state of the world looking form the edge rather than from the center.

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An Introduction to International Relations and Religion

Cited by 48 publications

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What can we say about today's British religious young person? Findings from the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme

What can we say about today's British religious young person? Findings from the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme

Leo Tolstoy’s Anticlericalism in Its Context and Beyond: A Case against Churches and Clerics, Religious and Secular

The Concept of Periphery in Pope Francis’ Discourse: A Religious Alternative to Globalization?

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