Political theologies
Subtitle: public religions in a post-secular world
By: edited by Hent de Vries and Lawrence E. Sullivan.
Contributors: Vries, Hent de.; Sullivan, Lawrence Eugene, 1949-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 796
ISBN-13: 9780823226443; 9780823226450
Subjects: Political theology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 697-796).
Table of contents: value: Preface / Hent de Vries and Lawrence E. Sullivan; value: Introduction: before, around, and beyond the theologico-political / Hent de Vries; value: What are political theologies?; value: The gods of politics in early Greek cities / Marcel Detienne; value: Church, state, resistance / Jean-Luc Nancy; value: Politics and finitude : the temporal status of Augustine's Civitas permixta / M.B. Pranger; value: The scandal of religion : Luther and public speech in the Reformation / Antónia Szabari; value: On the names of God / Ernesto Laclau; value: The permanence of the theologico-political? / Claude Lefort; value: Violence in the state of exception : reflections on theologico-political motifs in Benjamin and Schmitt / Marc de Wilde; value: Critique, coercion, and sacred life in Benjamin's "Critique of violence" / Judith Butler; value: From Rosenzweig to Levinas : philosophy of war / Stéphane Mosès; value: Levinas, Spinoza, and the theologico-political meaning of Scripture / Hent de Vries; value: Beyond tolerance : pluralism and agonistic reason; value: On the relation between the secular liberal state and religion / Jürgen Habermas; value: Prepolitical moral foundations of a free republic / Pope Benedict XVI; value: Bush's God talk / Bruce Lincoln; value: Pluralism and faith / William E. Connolly; value: Subjects of tolerance : why we are civilized and they are the barbarians / Wendy Brown; value: Religion, liberal democracy, and citizenship / Chantal Mouffe; value: Toleration without tolerance : enlightenment and the image of reason / Lars Tønder; value: Saint John : the miracle of secular reason / Matthew Scherer; value: Democratic republicanism, secularism, and beyond; value: Reinhabiting civil disobedience / Bhrigupati Singh; value: Rogue democracy and the hidden God / Samuel Weber; value: Intimate publicities : retreating the theologico-political in the Chávez regime? / Rafael Sánchez; value: The figure of the abducted woman : the citizen as sexed / Veena Das; value: How to recognize a Moslem when you see one : Western secularism and the politics of conversion / Markha G. Valenta; value: Laïcité or the politics of republican secularism / Yolande Jansen; value: Trying to understand French secularism / Talal Asad; value: Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the politics of tolerance in the Netherlands / Peter van der Veer; value: Can a minority retain its identity in law? the 2005 Multatuli lecture / Job Cohen; value: Prophetic justice in a home haunted by strangers : transgressive solidarity and trauma in the work of an Israeli rabbis' group / Bettina Prato; value: Opening societies and the rights of the human; value: Mysticism and the foundation of the open society : bergsonian politics / Paola Marrati; value: The agency of assemblages and the North American blackout / Jane bennett; value: Automatic theologies : surrealism and the politics of equality / Kate Khatib; value: Theoscopy : transparency, omnipotence, and modernity / Stefanos Geroulanos; value: Come on, humans, one more effort if you want to be post-christians! / Thierry de Duve; value: The right not to use rights : human rights and the structure of judgments / Werner Hamacher.