Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus write by Ansgar Jödicke. This book was released on 2017-08-04. Religion and Soft Power in the South Caucasus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Caucasus region, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and their powerful neighbours Russia, Turkey, Iran and the EU negotiate their future policies and spheres of influence. This volume explores the role of religion in the South Caucasus to describe and explain how transnational religious relationships intermingle with transnational political relationships. The concept of ‘soft power’ is the heuristic starting point of this important investigation to define the importance of religion in the region. Drawing on a three-year project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation, the book brings together academics from the South Caucasus and across Europe to offer original empirical research and contributions from experienced researchers in political science, history and oriental studies. This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of post-Soviet studies, international relations, religious studies and political science.
Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus
Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus write by Alexander Agadjanian. This book was released on 2014-10-10. Religion, Nation and Democracy in the South Caucasus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores developments in the three major societies of the South Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – focusing especially on religion, historical traditions, national consciousness, and political culture, and on how these factors interact. It outlines how, despite close geographical interlacement, common historical memories and inherited structures, the three countries have deep differences; and it discusses how development in all three nations has differed significantly from the countries’ declared commitments to democratic orientation and European norms and values. The book also considers how external factors and international relations continue to impact on the three countries.
Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society
Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society write by Jayeel Cornelio. This book was released on 2020-11-29. Routledge International Handbook of Religion in Global Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Like any other subject, the study of religion is a child of its time. Shaped and forged over the course of the twentieth century, it has reflected the interests and political situation of the world at the time. As the twenty-first century unfolds, it is undergoing a major transition along with religion itself. This volume showcases new work and new approaches to religion which work across boundaries of religious tradition, academic discipline and region. The influence of globalizing processes has been evident in social and cultural networking by way of new media like the internet, in the extensive power of global capitalism and in the increasing influence of international bodies and legal instruments. Religion has been changing and adapting too. This handbook offers fresh insights on the dynamic reality of religion in global societies today by underscoring transformations in eight key areas: Market and Branding; Contemporary Ethics and Virtues; Intimate Identities; Transnational Movements; Diasporic Communities; Responses to Diversity; National Tensions; and Reflections on ‘Religion’. These themes demonstrate the handbook’s new topics and approaches that move beyond existing agendas. Bringing together scholars of all ages and stages of career from around the world, the handbook showcases the dynamism of religion in global societies. It is an accessible introduction to new ways of approaching the study of religion practically, theoretically and geographically.
Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe
Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe write by Thomas Makarychev, Andrey Krüssmann. This book was released on 2019-09-30. Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The book series „European Studies in the Caucasus” offers innovative perspectives on regional studies of the Caucasus. By embracing the South Caucasus as well as Turkey and Russia as the major regional powers, it moves away from a traditional viewpoint of European Studies that considers the countries of the region as objects of Europeanization. This first volume emphasizes the movements of ideas in both directions—from Europe to the Caucasus and from the Caucasus to Europe. This double-track frame illuminates new aspects of a variety of issues requiring reciprocity and intersubjectivity, including rivalries between different integration systems in the southern and eastern fringes of Europe, various dimensions of interaction between countries of the South Caucasus and the European Union in a situation of the ongoing conflict with Russia, and different ways of using European experiences for the sake of domestic reforms in the South Caucasus. Topics range from identities to foreign policies, and from memory politics to religion.
Reconfigurations of Political Space in the Caucasus
Reconfigurations of Political Space in the Caucasus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconfigurations of Political Space in the Caucasus write by Franziska Smolnik. This book was released on 2020-05-21. Reconfigurations of Political Space in the Caucasus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In order to analyse configurations of power that transcend the territorial trap, the Caucasus is an excellent case in point. Its past and present exhibit an extraordinary richness in power practices of diverse forms that intersect on various scales. This comprehensive volume offers an innovative procedural perspective on the actual workings of power not necessarily tied to the nation-state. Its focus goes well beyond national scales to tackle the manifold impacts of transboundary flows. The authors, from a wide range of academic disciplines, provide original empirical data from this intriguing but largely untapped region, with respect to the critical study of statehood. They also shed light on the diversity of political space and the ongoing process of spatial re-alignment. The chapters in this collection focus on: land governance practice in the North Caucasus; practices of local administration in Georgia; Shia influence from Iran in Azerbaijan; and trajectories of Ottoman influence in Adjara and Abkhazia respectively. They cover the South as well as North Caucasus, examining configurations of power that entangle smaller and larger scales, and providing perspectives on transboundary flows between the area and both Turkey and Iran. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Eurasian Geography and Economics.
