Why politics can't be freed from religion
By: Ivan Strenski.
Series: Blackwell manifestos
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405176491; 9781405176484
Subjects: Religion and politics
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Interrogating religion; title: Religion trouble; title: Seeing religion : six common clichés; title: Gagging at the feast of two unexamined assumptions : religion, all good or all bad; title: Politics using religion : anatomy of a cliché; title: The religion-is-no-good cliché; title: The second set of two clichés : religion is belief and belief in God; title: Religion's private parts; title: Powerless in paradise; title: Two ways to eliminate religion; title: Is religion our phlogiston? : an historical test case; title: Talal Asad's religion trouble; title: The trick of defining religion; title: Owning religion; title: How Durkheim took ownership of religion; title: Religion and its despisers; title: Interrogating power; title: Confronting the paradox of power; title: How power plays havoc with thinking about institutional violence; title: Whom should we blame? : history on trial; title: History's helper : we should also blameFoucault; title: Problematizing power in South Africa; title: Foucault versus Foucault; title: Thinking about power as Auctoritas and hierarchy; title: What more is to be done? : thinking about power as Auctoritas and social force; title: Interrogating politics; title: Where there is no politics : despotism and totalitarianism; title: Autonomous politics; title: Where our politics makes no sense; title: Politics, the construct; title: Two pernicious views of politics; title: History lessons for Professor Morgenthau; title: What constitutionalism owes the Council of Constance; title: The emergence of the political from the religious; title: Machiavelli and Luther : critical contributions to the autonomy of politics; title: Foucault's fault II : everything is political; title: The hidden fascism of thinking that everything is political; title: Public and private : no absolute line of demarcation; title: Resisting panopticon; title: Afterword: The autonomy of politics and the nation-state; title: Testing interrogations of religion, power, and politics : human bomber and the authority of sacrifice in the Middle East; title: Is suicide bombing religious?; title: Making too much of religion in suicide bombing : Islamofascism; title: Dying to make too little of religion in suicide bombing : Robert A. Pape; title: No religion in suicide bombing : Talal Asad; title: How religion helps explain human bombing; title: Human bombing is catastrophe, but also a triumph of secular immortality; title: Human bombing = jihad + sacrifice; title: Sacrifice or suicide?; title: But do any Muslims really think human bombers are sacrifices?; title: Sacrifice makes authority; title: How and why sacrifice works : the authority of sacralization; title: How and why sacrifice works : no free gifts.