Reviving “Religious Wars” but Thinking about Them Differently

Article Commentary| July 21 2020 Reviving “Religious Wars” but Thinking about Them Differently Collections: Section: Politics, Governance, and the Law Mona Kanwal Sheikh Mona Kanwal Sheikh 1Global Security and Worldviews, Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen Denmark, [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar [email protected] Global Perspectives (2020) 1 (1): 13337. https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.13337 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Mona Kanwal Sheikh; Reviving “Religious Wars” but Thinking about Them Differently. Global Perspectives 11 May 2020; 1 (1): 13337. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/gp.2020.13337 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentGlobal Perspectives Search Topics Politics, Governance, and the Law Keywords: religious war, worldview analysis, radicalization, conflict research, war, religion For thirty years, in the early modern period of the seventeenth century, Central Europe was ravaged by wars justified with reference to differences in religious interpretations. Looking back at the wars between various Protestant and Catholic states in the Holy Roman Empire, scholars have pointed out that those dubbed religious wars were equally about “worldly” matters of politics, power, ethnicity, or social grievances (Palaver, Rudolph, and Regensburger 2016). Yet the urge to understand—and perhaps even isolate the significance of—religion has prevailed in contemporary times. Religion has remained on the agenda of social sciences, and with less “secular resistance” after 9/11 than in the previous centuries, for good reasons, not least since statistical data have shown that conflicts involving self-defined religious actors and religious claims have increased over the past decades, rather than following the curve of other conflict types that are generally decreasing (Svensson and Nilsson 2018). There... You do not currently have access to this content

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