Erin K Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4140962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin K Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin K |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON E K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4750-7362 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief of Minority Communities
Policy efforts on the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) often focus on the protection of vulnerable religious minorities. Yet focusing solely or primarily on religious minorities overlooks the needs of other minorities whose rights are also protected under Article 18. Such vulnerable groups include atheists, indigenous spiritualities, and the LGBTQIA + community. Drawing on data collected in Kenya and Indonesia as part of the Joint In…
Religion and World Politics: Connecting Theory with Practice
Religion and World Politics provides a short, accessible, and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive, contextually relevant way. Is religion central or irrelevant, positive or negative in world politics today? So much political commentary and analysis focuses on these issues. But these are the wrong questions to be asking. Designed for practitioners, policymakers, and newcom…
Blurring Boundaries or Deepening Discourses on FoRB? From Global to Local and Back Again
This article explores whether, and if so, how, vernacularization could play a role in fostering commitment to the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) across different cultural and political contexts. It suggests that while there are indications that vernacularization could and does contribute to this goal, there are points of concern and aspects that remain under-researched. These lingering caveats relate to the process of vernaculariza…
Religion and European Society: A Primer
Introduction: Political Secularism and Religious Difference in Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa
The introductory paper of this symposium compares the impact of “political secular” governing regimes in the countries of both the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Western Europe. The overall objective is to assess the impact of political secularism in both regions, as a key component of inter-religious and cultural discord and contention with significant political ramifications. The concept of “political secularism,” a contentious term, o…
Revisiting the Global Imaginary: Theories, Ideologies, Subjectivities
Secularization and Secularism
Secularization and secularism are closely related concepts that attempt to explain processes and phenomena in politics and public life in the modern era relating, in part, to the differentiation of religion from other aspects of human activity. They are not, however, simply concerned with the distinction between the religious and the secular. Rather, secularization and secularism possess their own particular formations of power, endeavoring to co…
The Passion as Public Reflexivity: How the Dutch in a Ritual-musical Event Reflect on Religious and Moral Discussions in Society
This article analyses the public significance of The Passion —a televised retelling of the Passion of Jesus, featuring pop songs and celebrities in the Dutch public sphere. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the authors demonstrate how performances like The Passion offer spaces in which the Dutch can reflect publicly on important identity issues, such as the role of Christian heritage in a supposedly secular age. The article contributes to deepe…
Universal or Particular … or Both? The Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The right to Freedom of Religion of Belief (FoRB) is a focus of increasing concern in academia and policy. A key disagreement is whether a universally recognized right to FoRB actually exists. This article explores this disagreement by considering global, universalist narratives and local, context-specific application of FoRB in India and Indonesia. We argue that the language of FoRB is not universal, but across different cultures, concepts and p…
Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective
Power Differences’ and ‘the Power of Difference’: The Dominance of Secularism as Ontological Injustice
Recent religious studies and international relations scholarship has highlighted secularism as a critical element in dominant modes of identity, power, and exclusion in global politics. Yet, the implications of these insights for global justice theory and practice have rarely been considered. This article suggests that the current dominance of secularism within global justice theory and practice risks undermining the global justice project. Speci…
The socio-political dynamics of secularism and epistemological injustice in global justice theory and practice
This article explores the potential implications for the pursuit of global justice if certain non-secular ways of thinking, being in and responding to the world are devalued, marginalized and excluded by dominant secular norms that presently guide global justice theory and practice. I argue that pervasive assumptions about the nature of religion and the role that it should (or should not) play in public life undermine existing approaches to the p…
Secular War: Myths of Religion, Politics and Violence
Scholarly analysis of the interconnections between religion, politics, violence, war, and peace have been gradually developing more nuance and sophistication since the early 2000s, especially in th
Theorizing Religion as Politics in Postsecular International Relations
This article reconsiders the political dimensions of religious activity in light of a supposedly emerging post-secular society. I argue that limited understandings of both religion and politics restrict the capacity of scholars and faith-based actors alike to perceive the significant influence that religious actions and rituals can have in the political realm. The article outlines the dimensions of a post-secular society, drawing on the work of J…
The Religious as Political and the Political as Religious: Globalisation, Post-Secularism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Sacred
The model of secularism as the overarching framework for managing the relationship between religion and politics has come under increasing scrutiny in recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, particularly in the wake of the so-called “postsecular turn”. Where once religion was thought to be an entity that was easily identifiable, definable and largely irrelevant to politics and public life, these assumptions are being increasingly brought…
The Dao of World Politics: Towards a post-Westphalian, worldist International Relations; Imagining World Politics: Sihar and Shenya, a Fable For Our Times
Reflectivist scholarship in international relations (IR) has recently witnessed two significant ‘turns’ in critique and theorizing – the aesthetic turn and the postsecular turn.11On the aesthetic t
Religious Globalisms in the Post-Secular Age
This article explores the interconnections between mounting global crises and the emergence of the post-secular. Specifically, the article argues that the post-secular is both a description of and a response to shifting global realities in the twenty-first century. It describes the crisis of secular rationalism, brought about in many ways by an overemphasis on economic rationalism and neoliberalism (Steger et al., 2013 Steger, M. B., Goodman, J. …
After Secularism: Rethinking Religion in Global Politics
Introduction Subordinating Religion: The Logic of Secularism in International Relations Theory Essentializing Religion: Institutional, Individual and Irrational After Secularism: Relational Dialogism as an Alternative Articulating Religion: Religion, Discourse and Identity in US Politics Revealing Religion: An Alternative Account of Religion and Politics Conclusion
After Secularism
Having destabilized dominant assumptions about the nature of religion, there is now a need to develop new ways of thinking about this ever-present phenomenon in global politics. This book outlines a n
Globality
The term “globality” primarily refers to a social condition, potentially the end‐point of globalization, whereby individual and collective consciousness is focused increasingly at the global level and away from the national level. As in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when collective consciousness shifted away from religious affiliations towards national affiliations, in the era of globalization there is speculation that we are witnessing…
Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy
Anti-Globalization or Alter-Globalization? Mapping the Political Ideology of the Global Justice Movement1: Anti-Globalization or Alter-Globalization
Globalization has unsettled conventional, nationally based political belief systems, opening the door to emerging new global political ideologies. While much analytic focus has been on ideational transformations related to market globalism (neoliberalism), little attention has been given to its growing number of ideological challengers. Drawing on data collected from 45 organizations connected to the World Social Forum, this article examines the …
Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness
Luke Bretherton, Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 272, £50.00/€60.00/$89.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-40
From Apathy to Action: Promoting Active Citizenship and Global Responsibility amongst Populations in the Global North
Efforts to address social and global problems such as poverty, mass hunger and mass-atrocity crimes are hindered significantly by apathy and low levels of active civil and political engagement amongst populations in developed countries. Social change non-government organisations (NGOs), such as Oxfam Australia, Oxfam Hong Kong and Médecins Sans Frontières, have recently employed innovative, creative, experience-based strategies in their efforts t…
Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice1
The world's religions have strong traditions of contributing to theories and practices around justice. Recent debates on global justice within International Relations (IR), however, have largely overlooked possible contributions from religion. This article explores why religion is neglected, despite its potential for constructive involvement in the pursuit of global justice. I argue that dominant macro-level conceptions of both global justice and…
Anti-Globalization or Alter-Globalization? Mapping the Political Ideology of the Global Justice Movement1: Anti-Globalization or Alter-Globalization
Globalization has unsettled conventional, nationally based political belief systems, opening the door to emerging new global political ideologies. While much analytic focus has been on ideational transformations related to market globalism (neoliberalism), little attention has been given to its growing number of ideological challengers. Drawing on data collected from 45 organizations connected to the World Social Forum, this article examines the …
Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice1
The world's religions have strong traditions of contributing to theories and practices around justice. Recent debates on global justice within International Relations (IR), however, have largely overlooked possible contributions from religion. This article explores why religion is neglected, despite its potential for constructive involvement in the pursuit of global justice. I argue that dominant macro-level conceptions of both global justice and…
Power Differences’ and ‘the Power of Difference’: The Dominance of Secularism as Ontological Injustice
Recent religious studies and international relations scholarship has highlighted secularism as a critical element in dominant modes of identity, power, and exclusion in global politics. Yet, the implications of these insights for global justice theory and practice have rarely been considered. This article suggests that the current dominance of secularism within global justice theory and practice risks undermining the global justice project. Speci…
Theorizing Religion as Politics in Postsecular International Relations
This article reconsiders the political dimensions of religious activity in light of a supposedly emerging post-secular society. I argue that limited understandings of both religion and politics restrict the capacity of scholars and faith-based actors alike to perceive the significant influence that religious actions and rituals can have in the political realm. The article outlines the dimensions of a post-secular society, drawing on the work of J…
Religious Globalisms in the Post-Secular Age
This article explores the interconnections between mounting global crises and the emergence of the post-secular. Specifically, the article argues that the post-secular is both a description of and a response to shifting global realities in the twenty-first century. It describes the crisis of secular rationalism, brought about in many ways by an overemphasis on economic rationalism and neoliberalism (Steger et al., 2013 Steger, M. B., Goodman, J. …
The Religious as Political and the Political as Religious: Globalisation, Post-Secularism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Sacred
The model of secularism as the overarching framework for managing the relationship between religion and politics has come under increasing scrutiny in recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, particularly in the wake of the so-called “postsecular turn”. Where once religion was thought to be an entity that was easily identifiable, definable and largely irrelevant to politics and public life, these assumptions are being increasingly brought…
Introduction: Political Secularism and Religious Difference in Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa
The introductory paper of this symposium compares the impact of “political secular” governing regimes in the countries of both the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Western Europe. The overall objective is to assess the impact of political secularism in both regions, as a key component of inter-religious and cultural discord and contention with significant political ramifications. The concept of “political secularism,” a contentious term, o…
The socio-political dynamics of secularism and epistemological injustice in global justice theory and practice
This article explores the potential implications for the pursuit of global justice if certain non-secular ways of thinking, being in and responding to the world are devalued, marginalized and excluded by dominant secular norms that presently guide global justice theory and practice. I argue that pervasive assumptions about the nature of religion and the role that it should (or should not) play in public life undermine existing approaches to the p…
Blurring Boundaries or Deepening Discourses on FoRB? From Global to Local and Back Again
This article explores whether, and if so, how, vernacularization could play a role in fostering commitment to the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) across different cultural and political contexts. It suggests that while there are indications that vernacularization could and does contribute to this goal, there are points of concern and aspects that remain under-researched. These lingering caveats relate to the process of vernaculariza…
Secular War: Myths of Religion, Politics and Violence
Scholarly analysis of the interconnections between religion, politics, violence, war, and peace have been gradually developing more nuance and sophistication since the early 2000s, especially in th
Globality
The term “globality” primarily refers to a social condition, potentially the end‐point of globalization, whereby individual and collective consciousness is focused increasingly at the global level and away from the national level. As in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when collective consciousness shifted away from religious affiliations towards national affiliations, in the era of globalization there is speculation that we are witnessing…
From Apathy to Action: Promoting Active Citizenship and Global Responsibility amongst Populations in the Global North
Efforts to address social and global problems such as poverty, mass hunger and mass-atrocity crimes are hindered significantly by apathy and low levels of active civil and political engagement amongst populations in developed countries. Social change non-government organisations (NGOs), such as Oxfam Australia, Oxfam Hong Kong and Médecins Sans Frontières, have recently employed innovative, creative, experience-based strategies in their efforts t…
From Apathy to Action: Promoting Active Citizenship and Global Responsibility amongst Populations in the Global North
Efforts to address social and global problems such as poverty, mass hunger and mass-atrocity crimes are hindered significantly by apathy and low levels of active civil and political engagement amongst populations in developed countries. Social change non-government organisations (NGOs), such as Oxfam Australia, Oxfam Hong Kong and Médecins Sans Frontières, have recently employed innovative, creative, experience-based strategies in their efforts t…
Beyond Dualism: Expanded Understandings of Religion and Global Justice1
The world's religions have strong traditions of contributing to theories and practices around justice. Recent debates on global justice within International Relations (IR), however, have largely overlooked possible contributions from religion. This article explores why religion is neglected, despite its potential for constructive involvement in the pursuit of global justice. I argue that dominant macro-level conceptions of both global justice and…
Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness
Luke Bretherton, Christianity and Contemporary Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful Witness. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010, pp. 272, £50.00/€60.00/$89.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-40
After Secularism: Rethinking Religion in Global Politics
Introduction Subordinating Religion: The Logic of Secularism in International Relations Theory Essentializing Religion: Institutional, Individual and Irrational After Secularism: Relational Dialogism as an Alternative Articulating Religion: Religion, Discourse and Identity in US Politics Revealing Religion: An Alternative Account of Religion and Politics Conclusion
After Secularism
Having destabilized dominant assumptions about the nature of religion, there is now a need to develop new ways of thinking about this ever-present phenomenon in global politics. This book outlines a n
Globality
The term “globality” primarily refers to a social condition, potentially the end‐point of globalization, whereby individual and collective consciousness is focused increasingly at the global level and away from the national level. As in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries when collective consciousness shifted away from religious affiliations towards national affiliations, in the era of globalization there is speculation that we are witnessing…
Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy
Anti-Globalization or Alter-Globalization? Mapping the Political Ideology of the Global Justice Movement1: Anti-Globalization or Alter-Globalization
Globalization has unsettled conventional, nationally based political belief systems, opening the door to emerging new global political ideologies. While much analytic focus has been on ideational transformations related to market globalism (neoliberalism), little attention has been given to its growing number of ideological challengers. Drawing on data collected from 45 organizations connected to the World Social Forum, this article examines the …
Religious Globalisms in the Post-Secular Age
This article explores the interconnections between mounting global crises and the emergence of the post-secular. Specifically, the article argues that the post-secular is both a description of and a response to shifting global realities in the twenty-first century. It describes the crisis of secular rationalism, brought about in many ways by an overemphasis on economic rationalism and neoliberalism (Steger et al., 2013 Steger, M. B., Goodman, J. …
Theorizing Religion as Politics in Postsecular International Relations
This article reconsiders the political dimensions of religious activity in light of a supposedly emerging post-secular society. I argue that limited understandings of both religion and politics restrict the capacity of scholars and faith-based actors alike to perceive the significant influence that religious actions and rituals can have in the political realm. The article outlines the dimensions of a post-secular society, drawing on the work of J…
The Religious as Political and the Political as Religious: Globalisation, Post-Secularism and the Shifting Boundaries of the Sacred
The model of secularism as the overarching framework for managing the relationship between religion and politics has come under increasing scrutiny in recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, particularly in the wake of the so-called “postsecular turn”. Where once religion was thought to be an entity that was easily identifiable, definable and largely irrelevant to politics and public life, these assumptions are being increasingly brought…
The Dao of World Politics: Towards a post-Westphalian, worldist International Relations; Imagining World Politics: Sihar and Shenya, a Fable For Our Times
Reflectivist scholarship in international relations (IR) has recently witnessed two significant ‘turns’ in critique and theorizing – the aesthetic turn and the postsecular turn.11On the aesthetic t
Secular War: Myths of Religion, Politics and Violence
Scholarly analysis of the interconnections between religion, politics, violence, war, and peace have been gradually developing more nuance and sophistication since the early 2000s, especially in th
Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative Perspective
Power Differences’ and ‘the Power of Difference’: The Dominance of Secularism as Ontological Injustice
Recent religious studies and international relations scholarship has highlighted secularism as a critical element in dominant modes of identity, power, and exclusion in global politics. Yet, the implications of these insights for global justice theory and practice have rarely been considered. This article suggests that the current dominance of secularism within global justice theory and practice risks undermining the global justice project. Speci…
The socio-political dynamics of secularism and epistemological injustice in global justice theory and practice
This article explores the potential implications for the pursuit of global justice if certain non-secular ways of thinking, being in and responding to the world are devalued, marginalized and excluded by dominant secular norms that presently guide global justice theory and practice. I argue that pervasive assumptions about the nature of religion and the role that it should (or should not) play in public life undermine existing approaches to the p…
Secularization and Secularism
Secularization and secularism are closely related concepts that attempt to explain processes and phenomena in politics and public life in the modern era relating, in part, to the differentiation of religion from other aspects of human activity. They are not, however, simply concerned with the distinction between the religious and the secular. Rather, secularization and secularism possess their own particular formations of power, endeavoring to co…
The Passion as Public Reflexivity: How the Dutch in a Ritual-musical Event Reflect on Religious and Moral Discussions in Society
This article analyses the public significance of The Passion —a televised retelling of the Passion of Jesus, featuring pop songs and celebrities in the Dutch public sphere. Using a multidisciplinary approach, the authors demonstrate how performances like The Passion offer spaces in which the Dutch can reflect publicly on important identity issues, such as the role of Christian heritage in a supposedly secular age. The article contributes to deepe…
Universal or Particular … or Both? The Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief in Cross-Cultural Perspective
The right to Freedom of Religion of Belief (FoRB) is a focus of increasing concern in academia and policy. A key disagreement is whether a universally recognized right to FoRB actually exists. This article explores this disagreement by considering global, universalist narratives and local, context-specific application of FoRB in India and Indonesia. We argue that the language of FoRB is not universal, but across different cultures, concepts and p…
Religion and European Society: A Primer
Introduction: Political Secularism and Religious Difference in Western Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa
The introductory paper of this symposium compares the impact of “political secular” governing regimes in the countries of both the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Western Europe. The overall objective is to assess the impact of political secularism in both regions, as a key component of inter-religious and cultural discord and contention with significant political ramifications. The concept of “political secularism,” a contentious term, o…
Revisiting the Global Imaginary: Theories, Ideologies, Subjectivities
Religion and World Politics: Connecting Theory with Practice
Religion and World Politics provides a short, accessible, and practical introduction to how we can understand the place of religion in world politics in a more comprehensive, contextually relevant way. Is religion central or irrelevant, positive or negative in world politics today? So much political commentary and analysis focuses on these issues. But these are the wrong questions to be asking. Designed for practitioners, policymakers, and newcom…
Blurring Boundaries or Deepening Discourses on FoRB? From Global to Local and Back Again
This article explores whether, and if so, how, vernacularization could play a role in fostering commitment to the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) across different cultural and political contexts. It suggests that while there are indications that vernacularization could and does contribute to this goal, there are points of concern and aspects that remain under-researched. These lingering caveats relate to the process of vernaculariza…
The Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief of Minority Communities
Policy efforts on the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) often focus on the protection of vulnerable religious minorities. Yet focusing solely or primarily on religious minorities overlooks the needs of other minorities whose rights are also protected under Article 18. Such vulnerable groups include atheists, indigenous spiritualities, and the LGBTQIA + community. Drawing on data collected in Kenya and Indonesia as part of the Joint In…
Political science (21 works) · Sociology (21 works) · Law (20 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (18 works) · Politics (17 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (13 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works)