Large-Scale Religious Change and World Politics

¿El despertar transnacional del “gigante dormido” cristiano sionista?: Actores del apoyo público evangélico al Estado de Israel a partir del caso chileno

“…En esta discusión es que se vuelve necesario recurrir a los enfoques más amplios de los estudios internacionales aplicados a la religión ampliamente entendida y a los grupos religiosos en particular, para examinar en mayor profundidad su incursión pública. Según Dark (2000), "sorprendentemente, poco trabajo ha intentado mirar el rol de la religión en la política mundial en una escala global real, examinar estas categorías asumidas, y analizar las comunidades religiosas que no son ni musulmanas ni que están fuera de Occidente" (2000: 52). Así, examinar la acción cristiana sionista nos permite salir del campo de interés musulmán y, a la vez, enfocar la incursión pública evangélica desde una perspectiva internacional, distinta de las habituales.…”

After Secularism

“…The contested nature of secularization has significant ramifications for how religion's relationship with politics in the West is conceptualized and how religion itself is understood. Many theorists, both who support and oppose the secularization thesis, draw on statistics regarding church attendance and personal belief statements to argue for or against a trend of secularization (Bruce 2002;Dark 2000;Stark 1999). These theorists view declining church attendance and reduced numbers of people holding personal religious beliefs as evidence of a trend towards secularization in society.…”

“…Studies of secularism in the West tended to focus on factors such as the number of individuals that still attend church or profess belief in God, rather than on the influence of religious ideas and principles in Western society (Dark 2000). This demonstrates a preoccupation with the institutional and individual aspects of religion.…”

Religion and Preferences: A Decision-theoretic Explanation of Turkey’s New Foreign Policy

“…The general expectation was that religion is bound to lose its weight in international relations, as modernization processes accelerate at global level, such as the personalization of religion and the separation between religious and political spheres (Esposito and Voll 2003). Nowadays, several studies international politics draw attention to the impact of religion upon international politics (Huntington 1993; Dark 2000a,b; Philpott 2000; Abrams 2001; Fox 2002, 2004; Petito and Hatzopoulos 2003; Thomas 2005; Gill 2007; Hurd 2008). 2 Some possible reasons of the revival of religion span crises of modernity, failures of modernizing secular state to produce both democracy and development in the Third World, and Third World revolts against the West (Thomas 2003).…”