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The Politics of Secularism in International Relations

The Politics of Secularism in International Relations

Paperback

Series: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics, Book 105

Religion General General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0691134669
ISBN13: 9780691134666
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Oct 28 2007
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.84 Depth: 9.18
Language: English

Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations. And yet political scientists and policymakers have continued to assume that religion has long been privatized in the West. This secularist assumption ignores the contestation surrounding the category of the secular in international politics. The Politics of Secularism in International Relations shows why this thinking is flawed, and provides a powerful alternative.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd argues that secularist divisions between religion and politics are not fixed, as commonly assumed, but socially and historically constructed. Examining the philosophical and historical legacy of the secularist traditions that shape European and American approaches to global politics, she shows why this matters for contemporary international relations, and in particular for two critical relationships: the United States and Iran, and the European Union and Turkey.


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