It is important to have a firm grasp of the role that religion and sectarianism play as mobilizing forces in the regional politics of the Middle East.
While assessing how realism addresses religious issues in world politics, this collection also explores the role of religion in the intellectual development of IR theory.
Secular liberalism has become an influential, even dominant, worldview among sections of the intellectual class in many Western societies.
The international society is experiencing an epoch-making process of transformation. The global resurgence of religion is not unrelated to these structural changes.
The pervasive religious aspects of Romanticism demonstrate the failure of previous theories of secularisation. Modernity has never been a monolithic intellectual.
There are many healthy debates on religion and foreign policy, but there is still more to say about the nuances of religion at play in the international sphere.
Less theology and more religious sociology along with the study of political theory would contribute a more nuanced understanding of ‘Nations under God’.
Religion used as a scholarly term should be carefully distinguished from the notion of religion used in everyday speech. When theorists stalk religion, they should do so critically.
Over 30 leading scholars focus on the complex roles that religions play in world affairs and move beyond the simplistic narratives and polemics which swamp the discourse.
Examining the doctrines of religious institutions can help understand their relation to the international community in times of conflict, peacebuilding and development.
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