{"title":"Political religion: secularity and the study of religion in global civil society","authors":"J. D. May","doi":"10.46692/9781847423634.004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Religious Studies (RS) and International Relations (IR) have grown apart at the very time when it would be fruitful to study them together. For this to happen, questions regarding the relation of religion to politics, especially the status of religious communities in secular liberal societies. The 'scientific' nature of RS must also be scrutinised if an 'engaged' study of religions in the emerging global civil society is to be possible.","PeriodicalId":296786,"journal":{"name":"Religion, Spirituality and the Social Sciences","volume":"578 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Religion, Spirituality and the Social Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781847423634.004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Religious Studies (RS) and International Relations (IR) have grown apart at the very time when it would be fruitful to study them together. For this to happen, questions regarding the relation of religion to politics, especially the status of religious communities in secular liberal societies. The 'scientific' nature of RS must also be scrutinised if an 'engaged' study of religions in the emerging global civil society is to be possible.