Religious NGOs in international relations : the construction of 'the religious' and 'the secular'
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Religious NGOs in international relations : the construction of 'the religious' and 'the secular'
（Routledge studies in religion and politics）
Routledge, 2017
- : pbk
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"First issued in paperback 2017"--T.p. verso
Includes index
Bibliography: p. [192]-210
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Over the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and active in international decision-making. Among the estimated several million NGOs in existence today, an increasingly visible number of organizations are defining themselves in religious terms - referring to themselves as "religious", "spiritual", or "faith-based" NGOs. This book documents the initial encounters between the particularly international segment of those organizations and the UN while at the same time covering the Protestant and Catholic spectrum that dominated the early years of their activities in the UN-context.
This book focuses on the construction of the human rights discourse inside two religiously affiliated organizations: The Commissions of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) and Pax Romana (IMCS / ICMICA). These organizations have been formally accredited as NGOs by the UN, label themselves as religious, and look back upon a long and intense cooperation with the UN. Lehmann presents material from the archives of those two organizations that has so far rarely been used for academic analysis. In doing so, as well as documenting the encounters between those organizations and the UN, and looking at the Protestant and Catholic spectrum, the book provides new insights into the very construction of the notions of 'the religious' and the 'secular' inside those organizations.
This work will be of great interest to all students of religion and international relations, and will also be of interest to those studying related subjects such as global institutions, comparative politics and international politics.
Table of Contents
1. Looking into the black Box of religiously affiliated Organizations 2. Resurgence Debates, revisited 3. Methodical and methodological Layout of the Analyses 4. Religions and human Rights in the Context of the UN 5. Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) 6. Pax Romana (ICMICA / IMCS) 7. Worldwide Trend towards Activism 8. A Re-Evaluation of the Resurgence Debates
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