RELIGION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
RELIGION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS

Summary/Abstract: THROUGHOUT TIME, THE RELIGIOUS PHENOMENON HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS OF ANALYSIS AND THE TARGET OF MULTIPLE SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS. STARTING AS THE BINDING AGENT OF THE ARCHAIC COMMUNITIES, WHICH LATER GENERATED VARIOUS TYPES OF COMMUNITIES , TO BEING THE SOURCE OF CONFLICT OR TERRORISM ACTS, RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS BELIEFS HAVE BEEN PRESENT, MORE OR LESS NOTICEABLY, IN ALL THE HISTORICAL STAGES OF THE HUMAN SOCIETY AS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THE PROCESS OF DEFINING CERTAIN SOCIO-POLITICAL STRATEGIES OF THE WORLD'S NATIONS. VACILLATING FROM VITUPERATION TO APPRECIATION, THE RELIGIOUS PHENOMENON HAS FOLLOWED A SINUSOIDAL PATH, YET IT REMAINED A CONSTANT OF SOCIAL LIFE IN ANY HISTORICAL ERA, AND, MOST OFTEN, A CONSTANT WITHIN POLITICS. THE PHENOMENON OF RELIGIOUS RESURGENCE IS NO LONGER A NOVELTY, BUT HAS BECOME AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN VARIOUS AREAS OF SOCIETY. AND THIS GENERATES AT LEAST ONE IMPORTANT QUESTION: HOW DO WE RELATE TO THE RELIGIOUS PHENOMENON IN A POST-MODERN SOCIETY THAT CONSIDERS ITSELF SECULAR AND HUMANIST, WHILE CONTINUING TO BE MULTICULTURAL AND MULTI-RELIGIOUS?THE THESIS OF THIS STUDY STARTS WITH THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE PHENOMENON OF RELIGIOUS RESURGENCE HAS BROUGHT CHANGES AT THE LEVEL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, INFLUENCING THE STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL DECISIONS IN THE INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL POLITICS. THE AIM OF THE PRESENT STUDY REVOLVES AROUND THE ASSERTION THAT THERE IS A RELATIONSHIP OF INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN THE RESURGENCE OF RELIGION AND THE INTERNAL AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS. THIS STUDY ENDEAVORS TO DISCUSS THE DIMENSIONS OF THIS RELATION, AS WELL AS A FEW EMPIRICAL ASPECTS.

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