ABSTRACT
The recent turn to studying religion in International Relations has led to scholarly reflections about the foundational “secular” identity of the discipline. Since the Westphalian peace settlement ended the European wars of religion in 1648, nothing has been repressed more consistently within IR than religion. Though the dogmas of positivism or state-centrism are questioned regularly, the foundational dogma of secularism has been largely ignored until very recently. 1
