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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
A neo-Weberian approach to religion in international politics
Beteiligte:
Lynch, Cecelia
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2009
Erschienen in:International Theory
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/s1752971909000116
ISSN:
1752-9719;
1752-9727
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Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Current approaches for understanding and analyzing religion in international politics insufficiently incorporate the role of ethics in the practices of religious actors. Primordialist approaches essentialize religion, instrumental approaches consider it to be an epiphenomenon, and cosmopolitan approaches<jats:italic>a priori</jats:italic>downgrade alternative ethical constructs as insufficiently universalist. An approach to religion that begins with a constitutive understanding of religious belief and economic, social, and political practice as outlined in Weber’s<jats:italic>Sociology of Religion</jats:italic>, is more helpful. However, because Weber’s method insufficiently addresses ethical intentionality, the ‘neo-Weberian’ approach I advance here incorporates the concepts of ‘common good’ and ‘popular casuistry’ into socio-historical contextualization. This approach provides a way to understand and theorize how religious adherents connect religious guidelines to moral action that avoids the essentialization of religion which is often characteristic of other perspectives.</jats:p>