Religion And World Politics Connecting Theory With Practice | Politics

Religion and World Politics provides a short accessible and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive contextually relevant way. Is religion central or irrelevant positive or negative in world politics today? So much political commentary and analysis focuses on these issues. But these are the wrong questions to be asking. Designed for practitioners policymakers and newcomers to the topic of religion and global politics this book emphasises that religion is not something clear identifiable and definable but is fluid and shifting. Consequently we need analytical frameworks that help us to make sense of this ever-changing phenomenon. The author presents a critical intersectional framework for analysing religion and applies this to case studies of three core areas of international relations (IR) analysis: (1) conflict violence and security; (2) development and humanitarianism; and (3) human rights law and public life. These cases highlight how assumptions about what religion is and does affect policymakers theorists and activists. The book demonstrates the damage that has been done through policies and programmes based on unquestioned assumptions and the possibilities and insights to be gained by incorporating the critical study of religion into research policymaking and practice. This book will be of great interest to students of global politics IR religion and security studies as well as diplomats civil servants policymakers journalists and civil society practitioners. It will also benefit IR scholars interested in developing their research to include religion as well as scholars of religion from disciplines outside IR interested in a deeper understanding of religion and world politics. The Open Access version of this book available at www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched www.knowledgeunlatched.org |Religion and World Politics Connecting Theory with Practice | Politics