LEADER 05153nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9911020041403321 005 20230124183425.0 010 $a9786612482441 010 $a9781282482449 010 $a1282482440 010 $a9781444319156 010 $a1444319159 010 $a9781444319163 010 $a1444319167 035 $a(CKB)2550000000007393 035 $a(EBL)485692 035 $a(OCoLC)606848391 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000367585 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11273095 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000367585 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10312024 035 $a(PQKB)10285191 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC485692 035 $a(Perlego)2788920 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000007393 100 $a20090818d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhy politics can't be freed from religion /$fIvan Strenski 210 $aMalden, MA $cWiley-Blackwell$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (218 p.) 225 1 $aBlackwell manifestos 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9781405176491 311 08$a1405176490 311 08$a9781405176484 311 08$a1405176482 327 $aWhy 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 Cliche?s; 3. Gagging at the Feast of Two Unexamined Assumptions: Religion, All Good or All Bad; 4. The Religion-Is-No-Good Cliche?; 5. The Second Set of Two Cliche?s: 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 327 $a10. 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 327 $a8. 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 327 $a11. 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 327 $a4. 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 330 $aWhy Politics Can't be Freed From Religion is an original, erudite, and timely new book from Ivan Strenski. Itinterrogates the central ideas and contexts behind religion, politics, and power, proposing an alternative way in which we should think about these issues in the twenty-first century.A timely and highly original contribution to debates about religion, politics and power - and how historic and social influences have prejudiced our understanding of these conceptsProposes a new theoretical framework to think about what these ideas and institutions mean in today&'s societ 410 0$aBlackwell manifestos. 606 $aReligion and politics 606 $aPolitical science 615 0$aReligion and politics. 615 0$aPolitical science. 676 $a201.72 676 $a201/.72 700 $aStrenski$b Ivan$0615497 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911020041403321 996 $aWhy politics can't be freed from religion$94420198 997 $aUNINA