Scholarship on ontological security (OS), the of being, reveals how national narratives delineate communities within which individuals have OS and corresponding self-interest in upholding these influences foreign policy. A hereto-unexplored implication works is desire to maintain decisions balancing bandwagoning. The article uses Raymond Aron’s classical realism develop an theory balancing, dra...

The article discusses patriotism as a “political religion”, an ambiguous phenomenon that is both substitute for former religious traditions and something remains profoundly analogous with them. Special emphasis laid on the origins of such political religions in modern era role state their emergence, which somewhat relativizes Böckenförde’s famous thesis rise “process secularization”. also follo...

This article argues that a combined lens of affect theory and the aesthetics religion provides scholarship with new methodological theoretical insights for phenomenological religious education. These demonstrate analytic value understanding in terms its affective aesthetic dimensions, which offer renewed explanatory power variety experiences individuals communities undergo. In particular, these...

This article argues that the post-secular turn is new social analysis shapes politics of impoverized2 in Islamic liberation theology. In this article, I suggest that, given essentialism and determinism characterizing much contemporary studies religion secularism, a direct articulation approach from an theology perspective both inevitable necessary. Such can offer meaning for secularism by engag...