Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program
…contrast between official ways of approaching religion in bureaucracies in Brussels and Washington, and the approach taken by most scholars who study religion. The purveyors of CVE programming tend to depict religion as a force for good (and for evil) that stands apart from the world and acts upon it. “Religion made them do it,” says the State Department. To the extent that religion is understood as a cause of political behavior, public interventi…
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