Faith in Politics: New Trends in the Study of Religion and Politics
Faith in Politics: New Trends in the Study of Religion and Politics
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政治信仰：宗教与政治研究的新动向
DOI：
10.1353/wp.0.0007
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发表时间：
2008
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影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
E. Bellin
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作者：
E. Bellin
宗教和政治研究已经开始强行进入该学科的主流，这要归功于它们日益增长的方法复杂性和理论野心，以及对现实世界事件的推动。在比较政治学中，谜题驱动的结构化比较对宗教行为的合理性、路径依赖在塑造宗教价值观中的权重以及社会经济因素在塑造宗教活力中的作用产生了新的见解。在国际关系中，对宗教身份和价值观在国际事务中的重要性的认识，意味着对现实主义漫画的进步，这些漫画长期以来将思想贬低为附庸现象，并将追求财富和权力作为国际政治的唯一驱动力。但值得注意的漏洞仍然存在。比较领域仍然需要考虑宗教行为的非工具性方面，宗教作为一个独立变量的力量，以及随着时间的推移宗教思想的不同吸引力、说服力和政治显着性。国际关系领域必须超越专注于宗教在国际政治中是否重要的“范式之战”，转而进行更有经验、更有条理的比较，以阐明宗教何时以及为什么在国际事务中重要。
Studies of religion and politics have begun to force their way into the mainstream of the discipline thanks to their increasing methodological sophistication and theoretical ambition in addition to the push of real-world events. In comparative politics, puzzle-driven structured comparison has yielded new insights into the rationality of religious behavior, the weight of path dependence in shaping religious values, and the play of socioeconomic factors in shaping religion's vitality. In international relations, recognition of the importance of religious identities and values in the play of international affairs has spelled an advance over realist caricatures that long discounted ideas as epiphenomenal and focused on the quest for wealth and power as the sole driver of international politics. But notable lacunae remain. The comparative subfield still needs to reckon with the noninstrumental aspect of religious behavior, the power of religion as an independent variable, and the differential appeal, persuasiveness, and political salience of religious ideas over time. The ir subfield must move beyond "paradigm wars" focused on whether religion matters in international politics in favor of more empirically grounded, structured comparison to illuminate when and why religion matters in international affairs.