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Religion and the realist tradition : from political theology to international relations theory and back
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This volume picks up a rather uninvested field of international relations theory: the influence of religion on Realism as well as the power of Realism to address religious issues in world politics....
This volume picks up a rather uninvested field of international relations theory: the influence of religion on Realism as well as the power of Realism to address religious issues in world politics. Although classical scholars of Realism rarely mention religion explicitly in their well-known work, this volume suggests that Realism offers serious ground for taking religion and faith into account as well as evaluating the impact of religion on its theoretical framework: how religion and religious worldviews influence and affect the theoretical framework of Realism, and how Realism approach religi
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- edited by Jodok Troy
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- Language
- English
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- 1st edition
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014
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- 1 online resource (201 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9780203798607, 0203798600, 9781136030086, 1136030085, 0415529433, 1299852912
- OCLC
- ocn858231161, ocn897448424, ocn861532780
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Religion and the Realist Tradition; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Getting theory? Realism and the study of religion in international relations; 2 The influence of the Jewish experience on the liberal Realism of Hans J. Morgenthau; 3 What is Christian about Christian Realism? Reinhold Niebuhr and the ethics of war; 4 Augustine of Hippo, the pilgrim ethic and relational politics; 5 Realism and religion in "a secular age"; 6 Liberalism's religion problem and the promise of Realism in a religious world
- 7 The ethics of anti-hubris in the political philosophy of International Relations: Hans J. Morgenthau8 The constructive norm constituting power of religion in political Realism; 9 Religion and the Realist tradition of International Relations in a constructed world; 10 One cheer for classical realism, or toward a power politics of religion; 11 Religion and realism: charting a middle path for International Relations theory; Index