In the Orthodox ecclesiastical world, the issue of an Ukrainian autocephalous church has emerged. Now, the question is how this crisis is going to escalate.
The legacy of strict state control of religion combined with the violent crackdown on Islamic movements impacted the politics of state building after the revolution.
China’s leadership stepped up repression in Xinjiang by securitzing the Uyghur minority’s religion in a post-9/11 security climate dominated by the war against terror.
The prospect of political change in the North coincides with the potential for religious change in the South, producing a complex and fascinating set of scenarios.
Both history and contemporary events remind us that religion can have a political impact on individuals, nations and international society.
By emphasising secular reforms and de-emphasising communally specific attitudes and policy, the BJP seeks to present India as an open marketplace for the new middle class
Peter Berger’s work on the enduring importance of religion might save the sub-discipline of religion in IR from turning in on itself.
International law is premised on a hierarchical organizing of cultures, and is therefore critically unstable because its own biases undermine its claims to universality.
Religion appears to re-emerge in both French and Indonesian elections as a source of national identity to exclude those who do not share the heritage of the majority.
To imagine oneself as a believer may benefit IR approaches significantly in the attempt to understand the political imagination borne from religious practice and belief.
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