Political Theologies of International Relations: Comparative Christian Interpretations
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 October 2021) | Viewed by 646
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
“Political theology” is a complex multivocal field of study informed by a wide variety of definitions and methods. This Special Issue aims to contribute to the body of scholarship by publishing a suite of engagements between Christian political theology and the discipline of international relations (IR). Specifically, this issue seeks to explore the way concepts, issues, and frameworks of IR can be read (i.e., defended, contested, repurposed, or reformulated) within distinct (and overlapping) Christian interpretive traditions. The telos of the edition, therefore, is to advance religious literacy in the study of global affairs via interdisciplinary encounters (between IR and theology) and intra-religious comparison (between Christian political theologies).
Contributions are invited from scholars working at the intersection of IR and Christian theology. Submissions shall examine the interplay between core elements of IR (drawn from traditional or emerging agendas in the field) and Christian interpretive traditions (identified according to either historic affiliation or a school of theological method).
- Examples of elements of IR would be hegemony (as a concept), post conflict state-building (as an issue), and liberal institutionalism (as a framework or paradigm).
- Examples of Christian interpretive tradition would be Orthodoxy and Mormonism (as different historic affiliations) and feminist theology (as a method).
- Topic examples might therefore be: “An Orthodox interpretation of hegemony in IR”; “A Mormon theology of post conflict state-building”; “Liberal institutionalism and feminist theology”.
Articles should focus on the two-way encounter between IR and theology. Scholars are encouraged to work as precisely within each discipline as their knowledge and expertise allows. Collaborations between scholars from IR and theology (or cognates) are welcome. Peer-reviewers will be sought from both IR and theological disciplines relevant to those papers accepted for review.
Prof. Dr. John A. Rees
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- religion
- international relations
- political theology
- Christian theology
- political hermeneutics
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