Religion and International Relations Theory
The Case of "New" Historiography of Human Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4313785 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew Williams (0000-0001-8724-0856, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, corresponding author), Andrew Lloyd Williams |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13010039 |
| OpenAlex | W4205649029 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
International relations theory (IRT) often ignores or has difficulty accounting for religion. Thus, the choice of "new" historians of human rights to focus on religious actors in the lead-up to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a noteworthy development. One important finding of this stream of scholarship is the crucial role played by Christian personalists in the cultivation of "human rights" discourse in the 1930s and 1940s. However, new school historiography carries assumptions consistent with IRT liberalism that weaken its analysis of religion in the origins of human rights. Most problematic is its dichotomous framework that pits liberal secularism against reactionary religion, which tends to minimize interpretive possibilities. By contrast, IRT constructivism is attuned to the emergence and socialization of norms as different cultures, religious traditions, and value systems interact. Various actors and social networks create, inter-subjectively, pragmatic consensus from positions of fundamental ideological difference. As such, this paper, following a constructivist impulse, uses the case of new school historiography of human rights to better understand the weakness and the promise of IRT in explaining the role of religion in international relations
Epistemology · Historiography · Human rights · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Secularism · Social science · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Philosophy
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution
After Hegemony
Realism and International Relations
Social Theory of International Politics
Realizing Human Rights
Human Rights as Radical Anthropology
The Holocaust, the legacy of 1789 and the birth of international human rights law
Human Rights and History
Liberalism and World Politics
Religion and International Relations
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 in the History of Cosmopolitanism
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |