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Religion and Policy Journal
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Religious Ethics, State Legitimacy, and the End of History: Reframing Kojève for Asian Governance Michael Kuznetsov
Religion and Policy Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): Religion and Policy Journal
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rpj.v4i1.3107

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Research Problem: Alexandre Kojève’s anthropocentric reinterpretation of Hegelian dialectics, especially his concepts of finite negativity, desire for recognition, the master-slave dialectic, and the universal homogeneous state, has profoundly shaped Western political philosophy. However, its relevance for understanding religion, ethics, and governance in non-Western contexts remains underexplored. In contemporary Asia, rapid modernization, state-led development, religious pluralism, and post-traditional legitimacy have produced new tensions between material progress, moral authority, public recognition, and ethical governance. This article addresses the problem of how Kojève’s political philosophy can be reframed to analyze the role of religious ethics in shaping state legitimacy and governance across selected Asian societies. Research Purposes: This study aims to examine how Kojève’s philosophical-political vision can serve as a diagnostic framework for analyzing religion, legitimacy, and governance in China, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Indonesia. More specifically, it seeks to explain how religious and moral traditions interact with state authority, modernization, and public recognition. The article also investigates how Kojève’s concepts of recognition, post-history, and “animalization” illuminate the ethical risks of governance systems that achieve material satisfaction while weakening human striving, moral agency, and public contestation. Research Methods: This study employs a qualitative theoretical-analytical approach based on philosophical interpretation, conceptual analysis, and comparative political reading. It examines Kojève’s major concepts, including finite negativity, desire for recognition, the master-slave dialectic, the universal homogeneous state, and post-historical animalization. These concepts are then applied to selected Asian cases through comparative analysis, with particular attention to religious ethics, moral traditions, state legitimacy, public authority, and governance practices. The study does not employ empirical fieldwork, but develops a conceptual framework for interpreting the ethical and religious dimensions of contemporary Asian governance. Results and Discussion: The findings show that Kojève’s framework can be productively reframed to examine the relationship between religious ethics, state legitimacy, and governance in Asia. In China and Vietnam, developmental bureaucracies approximate preemptive universal homogeneous states by managing religion, morality, and public recognition through state-centered legitimacy and controlled negation. In India, religious nationalism, caste hierarchy, and social pluralism reveal an incomplete dialectic of recognition marked by persistent asymmetries. In Japan and South Korea, post-historical consumer societies display forms of ethical satisfaction in which religious and moral traditions are transformed into cultural symbolism, social discipline, and soft-power identity. Indonesia presents an open-ended case in which Islam, Pancasila, pluralism, and democratic governance continue to shape contested forms of recognition and legitimacy. These cases suggest that the end of history is not merely a political or economic condition, but also an ethical and religious problem concerning moral subjectivity, public authority, and the future of human striving. Research Implications and Contributions: This article contributes to the study of religion, governance, and public policy by repositioning Kojève’s political philosophy within debates on religious ethics and state legitimacy in Asia. It argues that religion remains a central framework through which states and societies negotiate recognition, moral order, political authority, and public legitimacy. The study also contributes theoretically by showing that Kojève’s concepts of recognition and post-history can help explain how modern states manage religious traditions, ethical claims, and legitimacy demands in plural societies. By connecting Kojèvean political theory with religion and governance studies, the article offers a new framework for analyzing the ethical limits of modernization and the role of religious morality in contemporary public life.
From Hindustan to Hindukush: India’s ‘Linchpin Policy’ in Inner Asia Joyprokash Mondal
Religion and Policy Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): Religion and Policy Journal
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rpj.v4i1.3114

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Research Problem: This research stems from the need to understand how the concept of unity in diversity has become a central symbol of Indian culture and image from ancient times to the modern era. Furthermore, this research also highlights the importance of India's role in geopolitical relations with Central Asia (Inner Asia), particularly in the context of regional peace, economic cooperation, and the utilization of energy resources such as oil and gas. Research Purposes: The aim of this research is to analyze how India's diverse cultural values ​​can bridge international cooperation and examine India's role as an economic and military power in maintaining stability in the Asian region. Furthermore, it aims to explore the potential economic benefits India can derive from relations with Central Asian countries. Research Methods: This study employed content analysis and observation. Primary data were obtained through informal interviews with Rajkumar Kothari and Debasish Nandy. Secondary data were collected from various sources, such as journals, magazines, and government annual reports. Results and Discussion: The research findings show that advances in science and technology have increased the geopolitical significance of Central Asian countries as the primary source of oil and gas after the Middle East. Changes in India's foreign relations have also strengthened its strategic role in the region, both in economic and security terms. Furthermore, historical interactions between India and Central Asia have enriched the cultures of both regions through the exchange of values, traditions, and social practices. Research Implications and Contributions: This study emphasizes the importance of Central Asia as a historical and strategic bridge between the West and India. Its primary contribution is demonstrating the potential of this platform for trade cooperation and the relevance of India's "Linchpin" approach, or "Look West" policy, in expanding ties to Central Asia. It also highlights how cultural and economic exchanges can strengthen social harmony and enrich India's cultural diversity.
The State and Public Morality in Morocco: Structures and Functions of the Moralising State Abdessamad Belhaj
Religion and Policy Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): Religion and Policy Journal
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rpj.v4i1.3183

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Research Problem: This article addresses the need to understand how states in contemporary Muslim contexts become involved in regulating public morality through laws, religious institutions, and policing practices. Such involvement often creates tensions between moral order, individual freedom, religious authority, and state legitimacy. Using Morocco as a case study, this article examines how the state assumes a moralizing role in public life and how this role shapes governance, authority, and social control. Research Purposes: This article aims to analyze the structures and functions of the moralizing state in Morocco. It seeks to explain how public morality is regulated through legal instruments, religious authority, and security institutions. More specifically, the study examines the Moroccan Penal Code, the Supreme Council of Religious Scholars, and the Public Morals Police Squad as key mechanisms through which the state governs moral conduct in the public sphere Research Methods: This study uses a qualitative case-study approach based on legal, institutional, and textual analysis. It examines Moroccan laws, religious institutions, public morality regulations, and selected cases involving state intervention in moral issues. The article also engages with theoretical literature on religion, public morality, governance, state authority, and Islamic ethics to interpret the Moroccan case within broader Muslim contexts. Results and Discussion: The findings show that the Moroccan state’s involvement in public morality is not merely intended to enforce religious norms. Rather, moral regulation functions as a means of maintaining public order, reinforcing state authority, and preventing perceived threats of social subversion and disorder. The state uses moral legislation, religious councils, and policing mechanisms selectively and pragmatically. This demonstrates that the moralizing state is less concerned with moral transformation in itself than with preserving a stable moral and political order. Research Implications and Contributions: This article contributes to the study of religion, governance, and public policy by showing how public morality operates as a field of state authority in contemporary Muslim contexts. It highlights that religion functions not only as a source of ethical values, but also as a framework of legitimacy used by the state to justify governance practices. The article also offers a conceptual contribution by distinguishing between moralizing society and maintaining moral order, thereby providing a useful framework for analyzing the relationship between religion, ethics, and state power in Muslim-majority societies.
Reconstructing Public Administration through Religious Morality for Ethical Governance and Public Service Quality Fepi Febianti; Muhammad Agreindra Helmiawan; Andien Fatimatul Aulia; Dina Noviana; Amelya Saroh
Religion and Policy Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): Religion and Policy Journal
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rpj.v4i1.3307

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Research Problem: Contemporary public administration faces not only structural and procedural problems but also a moral and ethical crisis. In Indonesia, corruption, maladministration, abuse of authority, weak bureaucratic integrity, and declining public trust reveal that public service reform cannot rely solely on regulations, institutional redesign, or performance-based management. Although New Public Management and Good Governance have contributed to efficiency, transparency, accountability, and participation, they remain limited when bureaucratic problems are rooted in moral degradation and weak ethical commitment. Research Purposes: This article aims to analyze the reconstruction of public administration through religious morality as an alternative normative paradigm for strengthening ethical governance and improving public service quality. It also seeks to formulate a conceptual model that connects religious moral values, bureaucratic internalization, ethical conduct, public service quality, and public trust. Research Methods: This study uses a qualitative approach through literature review and conceptual synthesis. The analysis draws on public administration theory, bureaucratic ethics, governance literature, and Indonesian public policy documents, including regulations on public service, government administration, bureaucratic reform, and integrity zones. Results and Discussion: The study shows that modern administrative paradigms tend to emphasize efficiency, procedural accountability, and measurable performance, while insufficiently addressing the moral foundations of bureaucratic conduct. The proposed model places religious moral values as normative inputs, internalization within bureaucracy as the process, ethical bureaucratic conduct as the behavioral mechanism, public service quality as the institutional output, and public trust as the expected outcome. Research Implications and Contributions: This article contributes to religion, governance, and public policy studies by positioning religious morality as a moral foundation for ethical governance. It offers a conceptual framework for strengthening integrity, restoring public trust, and improving public service quality through morally grounded administrative reform.
Pakikipagkapwa as Public Ethics: Religion, Governance, and the Mediation of Compassion in Filipino Society Cristabel F. Tiangco; Vladimer B. Kobayashi; Purisima P. Panlilio; Remi E. De Leon; Angela D. Carreon; Maria Margarita R. Lavides
Religion and Policy Journal Vol. 4 No. 1 (2026): Religion and Policy Journal
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/rpj.v4i1.3308

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Research Problem: This article examines how pakikipagkapwa, a central Filipino value grounded in the recognition of the other as a shared self, operates beyond interpersonal relations as a public ethical framework. Although pakikipagkapwa has often been discussed as a cultural and psychological value, its relevance to religion, governance, public policy, and crisis response remains insufficiently examined. This gap is important because compassion and solidarity require not only personal virtue but also institutional, technological, and policy conditions that enable their public expression. Research Purposes: This article aims to analyze the moderators, mediums, and enablers that shape the development, circulation, and public expression of pakikipagkapwa. It also seeks to explain how this value informs compassion, civic responsibility, solidarity, crisis response, and ethical governance in Filipino society. Research Methods: This study uses a qualitative exploratory approach based on secondary analysis of the digital scraping study conducted by Kobayashi et al. (2024). The original data consisted of 641,727 texts collected from seven online sources: YouTube, X, Subreddit Philippines, PinoyExchange, Philippines Expats Forum, Expat.com, and Skyscraper City. The analysis focuses on word clusters classified as moderators, mediums, and enablers of pakikipagkapwa. Results and Discussion: The findings show that families, religious organizations, educational institutions, and public personalities moderate pakikipagkapwa by shaping moral formation, prosocial behavior, and civic orientation. Technology, government, mass media, and media-associated civil society organizations function as mediums that communicate and mobilize compassion into public action. Weather conditions, natural disasters, and crises enable pakikipagkapwa by activating empathy, mutual aid, social cohesion, and collective responsibility. The article also notes that poverty, safe environment, functionality, and gender role did not emerge clearly in the model, revealing the limits of online discourse-based analysis. Research Implications and Contributions: This article contributes to religion, governance, and public policy studies by positioning pakikipagkapwa as a normative resource for compassionate governance, crisis response, public responsibility, and ethical public life.

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