Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics [electronic resource] : Negotiating Transitive Spaces and Hybrid Identities /
LeBlanc, J.author.
Medine, Carolyn M. Jones.author.
This book brings a variety of voices into conversation about the issues of identity, community, tension and violence, and peace in the West: from Sophocles to Alice Walker, from Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr. and from Euripides to Edward Said.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Negotiations in Transitive Spaces; Section I: Home and Homelessness; 1 Culture, Location, and the Problem of Transitive Identity; 2 Going Home in the Work of Charles H. Long and Ashis Nandy; 3 The Politics of Statelessness: Edward Said and the Ambiguities of Liberal Nationalism; Section II: Mediations of Religion and Politics; 4 Self-Cultivation and the Practices of Peace: Foucault on the Stoics and Peacemaking in the Modern World; 5 "The Better Angels of Our Nature" Sophocles' Antigone and the Crisis of Union
6 Oedipus at Colonus and The Gospel at Colonus: African American Experience and the Classical Text7 The Power of Horror: Variations and Re-framings of The Bacchae; Section III: The Possibility of Peace and the Beloved Community; 8 The Transitive "In-Between": Culture, Meaning, and the Political in Voegelin and Bhabha; 9 Negotiating Space(s): Reframing Political Conflict in Walzer and Lyotard; 10 Alice Walker: Suffering and the Task of the Revolutionary Artist; 11 The Limits of Reconstruction: Reconstituting Community in Martin Luther King, Jr.; 12 Conclusions from a Transitive Space; Notes
BibliographyName Index; Subject Index
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
This book brings a variety of voices into conversation about the issues of identity, community, tension and violence, and peace in the West: from Sophocles to Alice Walker, from Lincoln to Martin Luther King, Jr. and from Euripides to Edward Said.
Religion and sociology.
Crime—Sociological aspects.
Literature.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences—Philosophy.
Sociology of Religion.
Crime and Society.
Literature, general.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.
Social Aspects of Religion.