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Association: Name: ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES URL: http://www.isanet.org
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"Are We All Theologians Now?” Understanding Global Security and the Political Theology of International Relations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, Mar 26, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251161_index.html>

, 2008-03-26 "Are We All Theologians Now?” Understanding Global Security and the Political Theology of International Relations" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 49th ANNUAL CONVENTION, BRIDGING MULTIPLE DIVIDES, Hilton San Francisco, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p251161_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: If culture and religion are going to be taken seriously as social forces in international relations, then the first step is to realize that international relations is a social world of ideas, values, beliefs, and passions, as well as a material world of guns, missiles, trade, technology, and industrial production. It is how these material and ideational factors are related that we get the events of international relations, and, increasingly, what seem to be religious events or events that are in some way theologically motivated. However, can IR scholars really take theology seriously? How can IR scholars recognize theological knowledge as a type of knowledge that is useful for understanding international relations, and how does this possibility relate to the knowledge claims of positivist social science in international relations? How can this type of theological knowledge be useful to foreign policy practitioners and for global security?This paper examines the way critical theory, and post-positivist, approaches to international relations can help IR scholars come to recognize theological knowledge as a type of knowledge useful for understanding international events. Firstly, it will establish how we know what we know about the events and social world of biblical texts is not that different from the problem of discovering how we know what we know about events in the social world of international relations today. In other words, the discipline of theology is faced with many of the same epistemological problems that confront the study of international relations. It is no longer simply a matter in theology of trying to determine “what is going on in the text” through the use of positivism and the historical-critical method, nor is it simply a matter of trying to determine “what is going on in international relations” through the use of positivism and the deductive-nomological method of social scientific inquiry. Finally, the paper will examine the similarities and differences between a theory of international relations, and a theology of international relations, and why approaches that seek to interpret or “understand” the role of religious non-state actors in international relations are as important as approaches that seek to “explain” their behavior through established social scientific methods.

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