Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth
Religion and Politics in International Relations: The Modern Myth
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国际关系中的宗教与政治：现代神话
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2011
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T. Fitzgerald
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关注宗教及其与世界政治关系的国际关系学者们正在努力构建一个强大的现代神话。这个神话的一个组成部分是，宗教本质上是暴力和非理性的，除非由世俗国家控制，而世俗国家本质上是理性的，只是不情愿地暴力。蒂莫西·菲茨杰拉德（Timothy Fitzgerald）讨论了在这个现代神话中，“宗教”是如何作为一种自然力量出现的，它要么帮助要么威胁着事物的神圣世俗秩序，以及宗教是如何被描绘成一种具有多种形式的普遍本质，其最近最危险的表现形式是“伊斯兰恐怖主义”。这本书阐明了非理性宗教和理性世俗政治之间的本质区别，这似乎是一种毫无疑问的先入之见，政策的制定、国家的入侵和战争的发生都是基于这种先入之见。菲茨杰拉德认为，宗教的这种修辞结构为现代自由资本主义的合理性提供了信仰的基础，他展示了一个历史偶然的话语是如何转变为一套强大的全球假设的。
Scholars in International Relations concerned with religion and its relations to world politics are rhetorically constructing a powerful modern myth. A component of this myth is that religion is inherently violent and irrational unless controlled by the secular state, which is inherently rational and only reluctantly violent. Timothy Fitzgerald discusses how, in this modern myth, "religion" appears as a force of nature which either assists or threatens the sacred secular order of things, and how religion is portrayed as a kind of universal essence which takes many forms, its recent most dangerous manifestation being "Islamic terrorism". This book illustrates that the essential distinction between irrational religion and rational secular politics appears as an unquestioned preconception on the basis of which policy is conducted, countries invaded and wars fought. Arguing that this rhetorical construction of religion provides the foundation for faith in the rationality of modern liberal capitalism, Fitzgerald demonstrates how a historically contingent discourse has been transformed into a powerful set of global assumptions.