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The New World Order cannot be understood without accounting for the role of religion and religious organizations. During the Cold War, not much attention was paid to the phenomenon of nationalism and religion. Marxists, Liberals, nation-builders and integration specialists treated it as a marginal variable. In the Western political systems a frontier has been drawn between man’s inner life and his public actions, between religion and politics.
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This text was first published as: Religion and conflict (1997). International Journal of Peace Studies (January), 2(1): 21–38. Reprinted with permission.
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Reychler, L., Langer, A. (2020). Religion and Conflict. In: Reychler, L., Langer, A. (eds) Luc Reychler: A Pioneer in Sustainable Peacebuilding Architecture. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40208-2_7
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