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God and International Relations: Christian Theology and World Politics

God and International Relations: Christian Theology and World Politics

Luoma-Aho, Mika

Hardcover

Religion General International Relations

ISBN10: 1441138668
ISBN13: 9781441138668
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Mar 29 2012
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Religion is prevalent in world politics today, and international relation theory is at pains to understand and explain this phenomenon. This unique study aims to introduce political theology as an appropriate tool to the study of international relations. In accordance with the political theology of Carl Schmitt, which states that modern political concepts are secularized theological concepts, the work questions the secular foundations of contemporary international relations theory. Thus it reveals the Christian foundations of the discipline of international relations and delivers a critique of some of its most fundamental theoretical elements, such as its secular view of religion as part of the irrational, its deification of the political form of the nation state, and its negation of theism in its understanding of responsibility in world politics.The result is a primer on how international relations and its studies have grown out of the political imagination of Christian theology. It will appeal to anyone interested in critical approaches to the field as well as in politics and religion, political theory, and political theology.

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