Secular power Europe and Islam : identity and foreign policy / Sarah Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and international relations--Europe.

Religion and international relations.

Secularism--Europe.

Secularism.

Diplomacy.

Europe--Foreign relations--Islamic countries.

Europe.

Islamic countries--Foreign relations--Europe.

Islamic countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Summary:

Secular Power Europe and Islam argues that secularism is not the central principle of international relations but should be considered as one belief system that influences international politics. Through an exploration of Europe's secular identity, an identity that is seen erroneously as normative, author Sarah Wolff shows how Islam confronts the EU's existential anxieties about its security and its secular identity. Islam disrupts Eurocentric assumptions about democracy and revolution and human rights. Through three case studies, Wolff encourages the reader to unpack secularism as a bedrock principle of IR and diplomacy. This book argues that the EU's interest and diplomacy activities in relation to religion, and to Islam specifically, is shaped by the insistence on a European secular identity, which should be reconsidered in areas of religion and foreign policy.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. The Secular Self, the Religious Other: A Critical Reappraisal of the EU's Identity Building

3. The EU's Ontological Security: Narrating the Secular and the Sacred

4. The EU's Diplomatic Practices and Narratives toward Islam: Ignorance, Governance, and Moderation

5. The EU's Religious Diplomacy

6. Fighting Blasphemy and Promoting Freedom of Religion or Belief

7. Conclusions

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-174) and index.

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ISBN:

9780472128884

0472128884

OCLC:

1226086641