Towards a Postsecular International Politics : New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power

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. This volume explores the postsecular as a momentous transformation of the international system which affects existing forms of political community, identity, and power. It encompasses a set of theoretical investigations of the postsecular, an analysis of four case studies (Europe, Russia, the United States, and Egypt), and an examination of the role and strategies of transnational actors in a postsecular world. Written by world-renowned and emerging leading scholars, these essays offer a lively engagement with the formidable challenges of the postsecular transformation of international politics Front Matter....Pages i-ix Towards a Postsecular International Politics....Pages 1-26 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 Achieving Political Legitimacy in the Twenty-First Century: Secular and Postsecular Imperatives....Pages 29-48 Trauma and Dislocation in the Postsecular World: Religious Fervor and the Problem of Methodology....Pages 49-64 A Postsecular Global Order: Metaphysical Not Political?....Pages 65-80 The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy’s International Thought for a “Postsecular” Age....Pages 81-102 Front Matter....Pages 103-103 Postsecularity and the Contending Visions of the European Political Imagination in International Relations....Pages 105-128 The Clash of Postsecular Orders in Contemporary Russia....Pages 129-149 The Politics of Postsecular Borders: Everyday Life and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy....Pages 151-170 Secularism, Postsecularism, and States of Exception in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and Its Aftermath....Pages 171-193 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Faith-Based Organizations at the European Union and United Nations: From Marginalization to Significance....Pages 197-217 Faith-Based Organizations and Postsecularism in Contemporary International Relations....Pages 219-241 Postsecularism, Islam, and Religious Freedom: Cases from the European Court of Human Rights....Pages 243-262 Back Matter....Pages 263-276 This volume explores the postsecular as a momentous transformation of the international system which affects existing forms of political community, identity, and power. It encompasses a set of theoretical investigations of the postsecular, an analysis of four case studies (Europe, Russia, the United States, and Egypt), and an examination of the role and strategies of transnational actors in a postsecular world. Written by world-renowned and emerging leading scholars, these essays offer a lively engagement with the formidable challenges of the postsecular transformation of international politics.-- Provided by Publisher