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  • November 2, 2012
    World churches urged to prioritise global justice and peace

    World church cooperation needs a much stronger emphasis on international affairs and peace with justice, a senior ecumenist has said.

  • June 9, 2011
    Questioning ‘the global resurgence of religion’

    If the modern secular state has depended for its conceptualisation on the related concept of 'religion' as a private right of faith in unseen mystical powers separated from the state, then so have those modern discourses which construct “political and socio-economic forces”, and are thereby in danger of reifying them, says Timothy Fitzgerald. He assesses some key arguments in Scott M. Thomas's widely praised book The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations: The Struggle for the Soul of the Twenty-First Century.

  • March 10, 2011
    Religion and politics in international relations: the modern myth

    The assumption that there is some essential distinction between 'religious' and 'non-religious' domains – which is still today a globalising discourse – is an ideological construct which takes on an appearance of naturalness and inevitability, says Timothy Fitzgerald. When such generalised assumptions are taken into the field of international relations they cause further difficulties.

  • November 2, 2007
    Engaging with religion for building peace: The experience of Iraq and Afghanistan

    A One Day Conference which will addresses the complex challenges of building peace in Afghanistan and Iraq through the prism of religion.