Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Role of Religion in War and Peace

玛丽·埃伦·科尼兹尼克里斯托弗·莫里西圣母大学为什么宗教支持或反对国家支持的暴力？2003年伊拉克敌对行动开始前，美国出现了高度两极分化的公开辩论，这为审查宗教宣传提供了一个重要机会，当时许多宗教团体采取了支持或反对战争的不同立场。这项研究提出了以下经验性研究问题：反对伊拉克战争的宗教主张如何以及为什么不同于支持伊拉克战争的宗教主张？宗教和世俗对战争的倡导有多大的相似或不同？宗教是如何进入关于战争的更广泛的辩论的，它参与这场辩论的后果是什么？为了回答这些问题，本研究通过对公共文件的分析，分析了公开辩论的文化结构和内容。其次，这项研究在公开讨论中使用了对华盛顿特区重要精英参与者的采访，以便更好地了解他们的战略和网络，否则这些战略和网络可能会因为只分析记录在公共记录中的文件而变得模糊。最后，这项研究将使用各种民意调查来分析公众舆论在伊拉克战争问题上的任何变化。在这个“恐怖时代”，人们对宗教与暴力与和平的关系非常感兴趣。通过调查支持和反对国家暴力的宗教倡导的差异，本文可能会为国内和国际上减少暴力冲突的社会提供有价值的理解和信息。

SES-1003045Mary Ellen KonieznyChristopher MorrisseyUniversity of Notre DameHow and why does religion either support or oppose state-sponsored violence? The case of the highly polarized public debate in the United States before the beginning of hostilities in Iraq in 2003 provides an important opportunity to examine religious advocacy when many religious groups took divergent positions for or against the war. This study asks the following empirical research questions: How and why did religious advocacy against the Iraq War differ from religious advocacy for the war? How similar or different were religious and secular advocacy on the war? How did religion enter the broader debate over the war and what were the consequences of its participation in the debate? To answer these questions, the study analyzes public documents to analyze the cultural structure and content of the public debate. Second, the study uses interviews of important elite participants based in Washington, DC in the public discussion in order to better understand their strategies and networks that may otherwise be obscured by analysis of only the documents that made it into the public record. Finally, the study will use a variety of polls to analyze any shifts in public opinion on the issue of the Iraq War.Broader Impacts In this "Age of Terror" there is much interest in the relation of religion to violence and peace. By investigating variation in religious advocacy both for and against state violence, this dissertation could potentially offer valuable understanding and information beneficial to society, both domestically and internationally, in curtailing violent conflict.