Towards a Postsecular International Politics

New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power

  • Editors
  • Luca Mavelli
  • Fabio Petito
Book

Part of the Culture and Religion in International Relations book series (CRIR)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
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  2. Towards a Postsecular International Politics

    1. Towards a Postsecular International Politics
      Luca Mavelli, Fabio Petito
      Pages 1-26

  3. Theories

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 27-27
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    2. Achieving Political Legitimacy in the Twenty-First Century: Secular and Postsecular Imperatives
      Richard Falk
      Pages 29-48
    3. Trauma and Dislocation in the Postsecular World: Religious Fervor and the Problem of Methodology
      Stephen Chan
      Pages 49-64
    4. A Postsecular Global Order: Metaphysical Not Political?
      Nicholas Rengger
      Pages 65-80
    5. The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy’s International Thought for a “Postsecular” Age
      Alexandre Christoyannopoulos
      Pages 81-102

  4. Cases

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 103-103
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    2. Postsecularity and the Contending Visions of the European Political Imagination in International Relations
      Scott M. Thomas, Anthony O’Mahony
      Pages 105-128
    3. The Clash of Postsecular Orders in Contemporary Russia
      Richard Sakwa
      Pages 129-149
    4. The Politics of Postsecular Borders: Everyday Life and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy
      Stacey Gutkowski
      Pages 151-170
    5. Secularism, Postsecularism, and States of Exception in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and Its Aftermath
      Luca Mavelli
      Pages 171-193

  5. Actors

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 195-195
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    2. Faith-Based Organizations at the European Union and United Nations: From Marginalization to Significance
      Jeffrey Haynes
      Pages 197-217
    3. Faith-Based Organizations and Postsecularism in Contemporary International Relations
      Erin K. Wilson
      Pages 219-241
    4. Postsecularism, Islam, and Religious Freedom: Cases from the European Court of Human Rights
      Turan Kayaoğlu
      Pages 243-262
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 263-276
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About this book

Introduction

An investigation of the postsecular in International Relations and how an increasingly postsecular international politics is contributing to the emergence of new patterns of authority, legitimacy and power in the international system.

Keywords

Europe European Union (EU) human rights international politics international relations liberty politics revolution United Nations

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