Religion, NGOs and the United Nations: Visible and Invisible Actors in Power : Bloomsbury Academic : 9781350020368 : 1350020362 : 23 Mar 2017 : How do religious groups, operating as NGOs, engage in the most important global institution for world peace? What processes do they adopt? Is there a ?spiritual? UN today? This book is the first interdisciplinary study to present extensive fieldwork results from an examination of the activity of religious groups at the United Nations in New York and Geneva. Based on a three and half-year study of activities in the United Nations system, it seeks to show how ?religion? operates in both visible and invisible ways. Jeremy Carrette, Hugh Miall, Verena Beittinger-Lee, Evelyn Bush and Sophie-Hélène Trigeaud, explore the way ?religion? becomes a ?chameleon? idea, appearing and disappearing, according to the diplomatic aims and ambitions. Part 1 documents the challenges of examining religion inside the UN, Part 2 explores the processes and actions of