Abstract

On first glance the politicization and securitization of religion may seem remote from education. A second look reveals widespread international initiatives aimed at the uses of education precisely for political and security purposes, notably in the countering of terrorism, violent extremism and ideologies opposed to liberal democratic values. This editorial presents a critical framing on how scholars from a range of interrelated disciplines analyze the interface of religion, education and security. The purpose of this Special Issue is thus critically to engage scholars across religious studies and theology, politics and international relations, security and intelligence studies, to explore through empirical evidence and reasoned argument the role here for religion in education. The volume aims to make some ground-breaking cross-disciplinary theoretical advances and methodological innovations not simply to further debate but to provide the tools for asking new questions and opening new pathways and frameworks for exploring the critical interface of religion, education and security.

Highlights

  • These debates have often been framed as variant forms of political theology (De Vries and Sullivan 2006; Schussler Fiorenza et al 2013; Scott and Cavanaugh 2011)

  • On first glance the politicization and securitization of religion may seem remote from education

  • A second look reveals widespread international initiatives aimed at the uses of education precisely for political and security purposes, notably in the countering of terrorism, violent extremism and ideologies opposed to liberal democratic values (Ghosh et al 2016)

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Introduction

On first glance the politicization and securitization of religion may seem remote from education. The resurgence of religion in public life has been marked by intense debates over global governance (Burleigh 2009; Davis et al 2007; Habermas 2006, 2008; Haynes 2008, 2009; Huntington 2002; Wood et al 2016), issues which permeate international religious education (Davis and Miroshnikova 2017).

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