Political Theologies : Public Religions in a Post-Secular World

Vries, Hent De (EDT); Sullivan, Lawrence E. (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0823226441 / ISBN 13: 9780823226443

Verlag: Fordham University Press, 2006

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4304431-n

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• Titel: Political Theologies : Public Religions in a Post-Secular World
• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0823226441
• ISBN-13: 9780823226443
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Inhaltsangabe

What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years, Enlightenment secularization, as it appeared in the global spread of political structures that relegate the sacred to a private sphere, seems suddenly to have foundered. Unexpectedly, it has discovered its own parochialism—has discovered, indeed, that secularization may never have taken place at all.

With the “return of the religious,” in all aspects of contemporary social, political, and religious life, the question of political theology—of the relation between “political” and “religious” domains—takes on new meaning and new urgency. In this groundbreaking book, distinguished scholars from many disciplines—philosophy, political theory, anthropology, classics, and religious studies—seek to take the full measure of this question in today’s world.

This book begins with the place of the gods in the Greek polis, then moves through Augustine’s two cities and early modern religious debates, to classic statements about political theology by such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt. Essays also consider the centrality of tolerance to liberal democracy, the recent French controversy over wearing the Muslim headscarf, and “Bush’s God talk.” The volume includes a historic discussion between Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, concerning
the prepolitical moral foundations of a republic, and it concludes with explorations of new, more open ways of conceptualizing society.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

HENT DE VRIES is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is the editor, with Lawrence E. Sullivan, of Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World (Fordham).

Lawrence E. Sullivan is Professor of World Religions at the University of Notre Dame. The author of Icanchu's Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions, he was director of Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions, and served as President of the American Academy of Religions (AAR).


HENT DE VRIES is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is the editor, with Lawrence E. Sullivan, of Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post-Secular World (Fordham).

Lawrence E. Sullivan is Professor of World Religions at the University of Notre Dame. The author of Icanchu's Drum: An Orientation to Meaning in South American Religions, he was director of Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions, and served as President of the American Academy of Religions (AAR).

"Hent de Vries is Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Philosophy and the Turn to Religion; Religion and Violence: Philosophical Perspectives from Kant to Derrida; and Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Levinas. Among the volumes he has edited are, with Samuel Weber, Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination and Religion and Media."