1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990001927430203316

Autore

SINISGALLI, Leonardo

Titolo

Mosche in bottiglia / Leonardo Sinisgalli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Mondadori, 1975

Descrizione fisica

109 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

Lo specchio , I poeti del nostro tempo ; 55

Disciplina

851.91

Collocazione

VI.3. Coll.30/ 58(Varie coll. 29/55)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911020041403321

Autore

Strenski Ivan

Titolo

Why politics can't be freed from religion / / Ivan Strenski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

ISBN

9786612482441

9781282482449

1282482440

9781444319156

1444319159

9781444319163

1444319167

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Blackwell manifestos

Disciplina

201.72

201/.72

Soggetti

Religion and politics

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 When God Plays Politics: Radical Interrogations of Religion, Power, and Politics; 2 Interrogating 'Religion'; 1. Religion Trouble; 2. 'Seeing' Religion: Six Common Clichés; 3. Gagging at the Feast of Two Unexamined Assumptions: Religion, All Good or All Bad; 4. The Religion-Is-No-Good Cliché; 5. The Second Set of Two Clichés: Religion Is Belief and Belief in God; 6. 'Religion's' Private Parts; 7. Powerless in Paradise; 8. Two Ways to Eliminate 'Religion'; 9. Is Religion Our Phlogiston? An Historical Test Case

10. Talal Asad's 'Religion' Trouble11. The Trick of Defining 'Religion'; 12. Owning 'Religion'; 13. How Durkheim Took 'Ownership' of 'Religion'; 14. Religion and Its Despisers; 3 Interrogating 'Power'; 1. Confronting the Paradox of 'Power'; 2. How 'Power' Plays Havoc with Thinking about "Institutional Violence"; 3. Whom Should We Blame? 'History' on Trial; 4. History's Helper: We Should Also Blame Foucault; 5. Problematizing Power in South Africa; 6. Foucault versus Foucault; 7. Thinking about Power as Auctoritas and Hierarchy

8. What More Is to Be Done? Thinking about Power as Auctoritas and Social Force4 Interrogating 'Politics'; 1. Defining 'Politics'; 2. Where There Is No Politics: Despotism and Totalitarianism; 3. Autonomous Politics; 4. Where Our 'Politics' Makes No Sense; 5. Politics, the Construct; 6. Two Pernicious Views of 'Politics'; 7. History Lessons for Professor Morgenthau; 8. What Constitutionalism Owes the Council of Constance; 9. The Emergence of the Political . . . from the Religious; 10. Machiavelli and Luther: Critical Contributions to the Autonomy of Politics

11. Foucault's Fault II: 'Everything Is Political'12. The Hidden Fascism of Thinking that Everything Is Political; 13. Public and Private: No Absolute Line of Demarcation; 14. Resisting the Panopticon; 15. Afterword: The Autonomy of 'Politics' and the Nation-State; 5 Testing Interrogations of 'Religion,' 'Power,' and 'Politics': Human Bombers and the Authority of Sacrifice in the Middle East; 1. Is 'Suicide' Bombing Religious?; 2. Making Too Much of Religion in 'Suicide' Bombing: 'Islamofascism'; 3. Dying to Make Too Little of Religion in 'Suicide' Bombing: Robert A. Pape

4. No Religion in 'Suicide' Bombing: Talal Asad5. How Religion Helps Explain Human Bombing; 6. Human Bombing Is "Catastrophe," but also a "Triumph" of "Secular Immortality"; 7. Human Bombing = Jihad + Sacrifice; 8. Sacrifice or Suicide?; 9. But Do Any Muslims Really Think Human Bombers Are 'Sacrifices'?; 10. Sacrifice Makes Authority; 11. How and Why Sacrifice Works: The Authority of Sacralization; 12. How and Why Sacrifice Works: No Free Gifts; 13. Concluding Remarks; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion is an original, erudite, and timely new book from Ivan Strenski. Itinterrogates the central ideas and contexts behind religion, politics, and power, proposing an alternative way in which we should think about these issues in the twenty-first century.A timely and highly original contribution to debates about religion, politics and power - and how historic and social influences have prejudiced our understanding of these conceptsProposes a new theoretical framework to think about what these ideas and institutions mean in today&'s societ