Towards a Postsecular International Politics

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.

Auteur
Luca Mavelli is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent, UK.

Fabio Petito is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK.

Contenu
Table of Contents 1. Towards a Postsecular International Politics: An Introduction; Luca Mavelli and Fabio Petito PART I: THEORIES 2. Achieving Political Legitimacy in the 21st Century: Secular and Postsecular Imperatives; Richard Falk 3. Trauma and Dislocation in the Postsecular World: Religious Fervour and the Problem of Methodology; Stephen Chan 4. A Post Secular Global Order: Metaphysical Not Political?; Nick Rengger 5. The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy's International Thought for a 'Postsecular' Age; Alexandre Christoyannopoulos PART II: CASES 6. Post-secularity and the Contending Visions of the European Political Imagination in International Relations; Scott Thomas and Anthony O'Mahony 7. The Clash of Post-Secular Orders in contemporary Russia; Richard Sakwa 8. The Politics of Postsecular Borders: Everyday Life and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy; Stacey Gutkowski 9. Secularism, Postsecularism, and States of Exception in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its Aftermath; Luca Mavelli PART III: ACTORS 10. Faith-based Organisations at the European Union and United Nations: from Marginalisation to Significance; Jeffrey Haynes 11. Faith-based Organisations and Post-secularism in Contemporary International Relations; Erin Wilson 12. Postsecularism, Islam, and Religious Freedom: Cases from the European Court of Human Rights; Turan Kayao?lu