The religion–politics nexus has become a thriving field within the study of global politics. However, the fast development has translated only into a moderate diversification of the research. Building on Bourdieu’s analysis of the social field, this paper argues that this limited pluralization is related to the strong heteronomy of the field. This heteronomy has three “concentric” sources—the dependence on the field of politics, the continued influence of the secularist bias of Western social science, and the dependence on the theoretical developments in the broader discipline of international relations. Methodologically, the article builds on a detailed analysis of eighteen top academic journals and their scholarly output related to religion in global politics.

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宗教和（全球）政治：最先进的技术和超越

宗教-政治关系已成为全球政治研究中的一个蓬勃发展的领域。然而，快速发展仅转化为研究的适度多样化。基于布迪厄对社会场域的分析，本文认为这种有限的多元化与场域的强他律性有关。这种他律有三个“同心”来源——对政治领域的依赖、西方社会科学世俗主义偏见的持续影响，以及对更广泛的国际关系学科理论发展的依赖。在方法论上，本文建立在对 18 种顶级学术期刊及其与全球政治中宗教相关的学术成果的详细分析之上。