Die Entstehung "Religiöser Nicht-Regierungsorganisationen" im Kontext der Vereinten Nationen
Final Report Abstract
Throughout the last two decades, the analysis of religions in international relations is increasingly gaining momentum. Inside Religious Studies and the Sociology of Religions these debates point into four entwined directions: the revisited approach to the debate on religion in public space, discussions on new social forms of religion, a fundamental critique of the secular-sacred-dichotomy, and finally a Religious Studies-approach to the analysis of human rights. Based upon the extensive analysis of the early developments (from the Mid 1940s to the Mid 1970s) of three Christian RNGOs (the CCIA, the FWCC and Pax Romana) inside the UNO-context, the project at hand has been trying to contribute to these discussions. Based upon extensive archive analyses, the project presents the following main results: (1) Those organizations that look back upon a long history of RNGO-activities are peers to early international organizations. (2) Around 1970, the mode of the RNGOs-activities changed from Church Diplomacy to Civil Society Activism. (3) In the course of RNGO-activities, the categories of ‘the religious’ and ‘the secular’ change considerably inside the respective organizations. (4) Civil society activism transgresses religious as well as secular borders. Surprises that occurred in the Course of the Project: • The density of the archive-material that has not been touched yet. • The dynamic changes of the religious organizations in questions. • The relative negligence of these debates in the academic Study of Religions. Interview with the Religionswissenschaftlicher Medien- und Informationsdienst / Remid: Vernetzt: Politik, religiöse Non-Government-Organisationen und Globalisierung (http://www.remid.de/blog/2012/03/vernetzt-politik-religioese-non-government-organisationen-und-globalisierung/). Three Pieces in Contending Modernities-Blog of the University of Notre Dame: Manila 1960: A forgotten episode of Interreligious Dialogue (http://blogs.nd.edu/contendingmodernities /2010/11/22/cheer-cheer-for-old-notre-dame/). Interview with APIC/KIPA: Des ‘activists’ religieux à Genève ou New York (http://religion.uni-bayreuth.de/de/7_Presse/Pressespiegel/APIC_-_Interview.pdf).
Publications
- Interdependenzen zwischen Religionsgemeinschaften und internationaler Politik, - Religionswissenschaftliche Anmerkungen zu politikwissenschaftlichen Religionskonzeptionen, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 17 (2010), S. 75 – 99
Lehmann, Karsten
- Zur Etablierung von Religionen im Kontext der Vereinten Nationen - Ein Überblick in: Religion – Staat – Gesellschaft 11 (2010), S. 33-52
Lehmann, Karsten
- Vielfalt religiöser Traditionen und Organisationen in der internationalen Politik, Eine Replik auf Claudia Baumgart-Ochse und Mariano Barbato, in: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 18 (2011), 139-154
Lehmann, Karsten
