| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 376 pages) |
| Series |
Book collections on Project MUSE
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies
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| Contents |
Religion and polity-building. Religious freedom: preserving the salt of the earth / Fred Dallmayr -- A new form of religious consciousness?: religion and politics in contemporary Muslim contexts / Abdou Filali-Ansary -- A republic whose sovereign is the creator: the politics of the ban of representation / Shmuel Trigano -- Confucianism's political implications for the contemporary world / Ranjoo Seodu Herr -- Religion and the public sphere in Senegal: the evolution of a project of modernity / Souleymane Bachir Diagne -- The end of the Saeculum and global capitalism. Should we be scared?: the return of the sacred and the rise of religious nationalism in South Asia / Georges Dreyfus -- All nightmares back: dependency and independency theories, religion, capitalism, and global society / Hauke Brunkhorst -- The evangelical-capitalist resonance machine / William E. Connolly -- Questioning sovereignty: law and justice. "The war has not ended": Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the paradoxes of countersovereignty / Freidrich Balke -- Natural right and state of exception in Leo Strauss / Miguel Vatter -- Law and the gift of justice / Samuel Weber -- The religion of democracy: Tocqueville beyond civil religion. The religious situation in the United States 175 years after Toqueville / Jose Casanova -- The avatars of religion in Tocqueville / Lucien Jaume -- Publics, prosperity, and politics: the changing face of African American Christianity and Black political life / Eddie Glaude -- Conversion / Thomas L. Dumm |
| Summary |
The essays in this book shed interdisciplinary and multicultural light on a hypothesis that helps to account for such an unexpected convergence of enlightenment and religion in our times: Religion has re-entered the public sphere because it puts into question the relation between God and the concept of political sovereignty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion and politics -- Congresses
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Globalization -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects -- Congresses
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RELIGION -- Religion, Politics & State.
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Capitalism -- Religious aspects
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Globalization -- Religious aspects
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Religion and politics
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vatter, Miguel E.
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| LC no. |
2010039505 |
| ISBN |
9780823233212 |
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0823233219 |
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9780823248766 |
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0823248763 |
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