Towards a Postsecular International Politics: New Forms of Community, Identity, and Power

Table of Contents 1. Towards a Postsecular International Politics: An Introduction; Luca Mavelli and Fabio Petito PART I: THEORIES 2. Achieving Political Legitimacy in the 21st Century: Secular and Postsecular Imperatives; Richard Falk 3. Trauma and Dislocation in the Postsecular World: Religious Fervour and the Problem of Methodology; Stephen Chan 4. A Post Secular Global Order: Metaphysical Not Political?; Nick Rengger 5. The Golden Rule on the Green Stick: Leo Tolstoy's International Thought for a 'Postsecular' Age; Alexandre Christoyannopoulos PART II: CASES 6. Post-secularity and the Contending Visions of the European Political Imagination in International Relations; Scott Thomas and Anthony O'Mahony 7. The Clash of Post-Secular Orders in contemporary Russia; Richard Sakwa 8. The Politics of Postsecular Borders: Everyday Life and the Ground Zero Mosque Controversy; Stacey Gutkowski 9. Secularism, Postsecularism, and States of Exception in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its Aftermath; Luca Mavelli PART III: ACTORS 10. Faith-based Organisations at the European Union and United Nations: from Marginalisation to Significance; Jeffrey Haynes 11. Faith-based Organisations and Post-secularism in Contemporary International Relations; Erin Wilson 12. Postsecularism, Islam, and Religious Freedom: Cases from the European Court of Human Rights; Turan Kayao?lu