Religious NGOs in International Relations

Taylor & Francis

Religious NGOs in International RelationsThe Construction of 'the Religious' and 'the Secular'\nAuthor(s): Karsten Lehmann\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138856356, 978-1138856356\nSynopsis\nOver the last 30 years, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly present in international discourses and ?active in international decision-making. Among the estimated several million NGOs in existence today, an increasingly visible number of organizations are defining themselves in religious terms referring to themselves as \""religious\"", \""spiritual\"", or \""faith-based\"" NGOs. This book documents the initial encounters between the particularly international segment of those organizations and the UN while at the same time covering the Protestant and Catholic spectrum that dominated the early years of their activities in the UN-context.\n\nThis book focuses on the construction of the human rights disco.