Kirjahaku

Over 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.This book focuses on the construction of the human rights discourse inside two religiously affiliated organizations: The Commissions of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) and Pax Romana (IMCS / ICMICA). These organizations have been formally accredited as NGOs by the UN, label themselves as religious, and look back upon a long and intense cooperation with the UN. Lehmann presents material from the archives of those two organizations that has so far rarely been used for academic analysis. In doing so, as well as documenting the encounters between those organizations and the UN, and looking at the Protestant and Catholic spectrum, the book provides new insights into the very construction of the notions of ‘the religious’ and the ‘secular’ inside those organizations.This work will be of great interest to all students of religion and international relations, and will also be of interest to those studying related subjects such as global institutions, comparative politics and international politics.

Over 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.This book focuses on the construction of the human rights discourse inside two religiously affiliated organizations: The Commissions of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) and Pax Romana (IMCS / ICMICA). These organizations have been formally accredited as NGOs by the UN, label themselves as religious, and look back upon a long and intense cooperation with the UN. Lehmann presents material from the archives of those two organizations that has so far rarely been used for academic analysis. In doing so, as well as documenting the encounters between those organizations and the UN, and looking at the Protestant and Catholic spectrum, the book provides new insights into the very construction of the notions of ‘the religious’ and the ‘secular’ inside those organizations.This work will be of great interest to all students of religion and international relations, and will also be of interest to those studying related subjects such as global institutions, comparative politics and international politics.

Die sechzehnj hrige Anna ist hochbegabt. Ihr Musikstudium h tte sie schon lange beenden k nnen, w re da nicht ein zus tzlicher Studiengang, der ihr immer wieder Zugang zu sehr altem Geheimwissen verschafft. Langsam wird klar, dass vieles davon vor Jahrtausenden verloren ging. Ein paar Menschen der Neuzeit sollen nun in diese alten Mysterien eingeweiht werden. Es muss also Orte geben, wo Teile dieses Wissens verborgen sind. Steckt eine geheime Organisation dahinter? Bevor das beantwortet wird, lernen wir Mhia kennen, die 41.000 Jahre vor unserer Zeit lebt. Trotz des gewaltigen Zeitunterschiedes verbindet Anna und Mhia ein Geheimnis. Was ihnen beigebracht wird, ist so m chtig, dass es unser Leben vollst ndig umkrempeln wird. Und es hat bereits begonnen. So wie damals Mhia muss auch Anna heute im Verborgenen lernen, denn wer von den Geheimnissen erf hrt, lebt gef hrlich... Nicht alle sind damit einverstanden, dass wir Menschen die Wahrheit ber die Mysterien unserer Vergangenheit erfahren.