{"id":154,"date":"2014-10-13T14:38:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-10-13T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T14:38:31","slug":"religion-security-and-global-uncertainties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Religion, Security and Global Uncertainties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent commentary on this blog (<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/?p=133\" >Violence, Information and the Radicalisation of the Last Men<\/a><\/em>byDr Paul-Francois Tremlett) offered some fascinating insights on radicalisation and associated violence, and questioned whether they are necessarily motivated by religion. A recently published report from our department further explores this assumed connection between religion, radicalisation and violence, and more broadly, the commonly assumed link between religion and security.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This report, entitled <em>Religion, Security and Global Uncertainties<\/em>, aims to encourage more interaction, connected thinking and dialogue about the relationship between religion and security between academics, policy-makers, journalists and the communities involved. It was informed by research conducted between October 2013 and January 2014, which included a series of interviews with academic researchers and roundtable discussions with MPs, public policy officers, journalists, church ministers, and representatives of faith communities, local community organisations and NGOs.<\/p>\n<p>The full report and executive summary can be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/arts\/research\/religion-martyrdom-global-uncertainties\/reports\" >www.open.ac.uk\/arts\/research\/religion-martyrdom-global-uncertainties\/reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This research represents the first phase of the <em>Religion, Martyrdom and Global Uncertainties<\/em> project, which is funded under a Research Council UK Global Uncertainties Leadership Fellowship. Coinciding with the centenary of the First World War, the second phase of this project examines interpretations of Martyrdom and explores <em>who<\/em>, <em>what<\/em>, <em>why <\/em>and <em>how<\/em> we choose to commemorate. For more information on this project, see our project website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/arts\/research\/religion-martyrdom-global-uncertainties\/\" >www.open.ac.uk\/arts\/research\/religion-martyrdom-global-uncertainties\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Wolffe and Gavin Moorhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent commentary on this blog (Violence, Information and the Radicalisation of the Last MenbyDr Paul-Francois Tremlett) offered some fascinating insights on radicalisation and associated violence, and questioned whether they are necessarily motivated by religion. A recently published report from our department further explores this assumed connection between religion, radicalisation and violence, and more broadly, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/religious-studies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}