Durkheim and the Jews of France [[electronic resource] /] / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/4044 |
Collana | Chicago studies in the history of Judaism |
Soggetto topico | Jews - France - Intellectual life |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-43063-3
0-226-77735-9 9786611430634 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. ESSENTIAL JEWISHNESS O R REAL JEWS? -- 2. WHY SOCIETY? FRENCH NATIONALISM AND THE BODY OF JUDAISM -- 3. REINACH'S MODERNISM, DURKHEIM'S SYMBOLISM, AND THE BIRTH OF THE SACRÉ -- 4. HOW DURKHEIM READ THE TALMUD -- 5. SYLVAIN LÉVI: MAUSS'S "SECOND UNCLE" -- 6. WHERE D O WE STAND? -- NOTES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450681903321 |
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Durkheim and the Jews of France [[electronic resource] /] / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/4044 |
Collana | Chicago studies in the history of Judaism |
Soggetto topico | Jews - France - Intellectual life |
Soggetto non controllato | durkheim, france, judaism, philosophy, jewishness, identity, influence, nation, sociology, religion, hinduism, spirituality, ritual, sylvain levi, sacred, talmud, modernism, reinach, nonfiction, theory, community, universalism, ceremony, rite, french, jews, ethnicity, symbolism, mauss, essentialism, nationalism, antisemitism, assimilation, sociality, identification |
ISBN |
1-281-43063-3
0-226-77735-9 9786611430634 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. ESSENTIAL JEWISHNESS O R REAL JEWS? -- 2. WHY SOCIETY? FRENCH NATIONALISM AND THE BODY OF JUDAISM -- 3. REINACH'S MODERNISM, DURKHEIM'S SYMBOLISM, AND THE BIRTH OF THE SACRÉ -- 4. HOW DURKHEIM READ THE TALMUD -- 5. SYLVAIN LÉVI: MAUSS'S "SECOND UNCLE" -- 6. WHERE D O WE STAND? -- NOTES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777056603321 |
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Durkheim and the Jews of France [[electronic resource] /] / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (228 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.892/4044 |
Collana | Chicago studies in the history of Judaism |
Soggetto topico | Jews - France - Intellectual life |
Soggetto non controllato | durkheim, france, judaism, philosophy, jewishness, identity, influence, nation, sociology, religion, hinduism, spirituality, ritual, sylvain levi, sacred, talmud, modernism, reinach, nonfiction, theory, community, universalism, ceremony, rite, french, jews, ethnicity, symbolism, mauss, essentialism, nationalism, antisemitism, assimilation, sociality, identification |
ISBN |
1-281-43063-3
0-226-77735-9 9786611430634 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. ESSENTIAL JEWISHNESS O R REAL JEWS? -- 2. WHY SOCIETY? FRENCH NATIONALISM AND THE BODY OF JUDAISM -- 3. REINACH'S MODERNISM, DURKHEIM'S SYMBOLISM, AND THE BIRTH OF THE SACRÉ -- 4. HOW DURKHEIM READ THE TALMUD -- 5. SYLVAIN LÉVI: MAUSS'S "SECOND UNCLE" -- 6. WHERE D O WE STAND? -- NOTES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812613603321 |
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Muslims, Islams and Occidental Anxieties : Conversations about Islamophobia |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bradford : , : Ethics International Press Limited, , 2022 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 pages) |
Soggetto topico |
Islamophobia
Civilization, Western - Islamic influences Religious tolerance |
ISBN |
9781871891843
9781871891836 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910861958803321 |
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Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (894 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.7 |
Soggetto topico | Religion - Methodology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-118-45772-2
1-118-45770-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Dedication page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Introduction; A New Kind of Method and Theory Book; From Religion to the "Problems of Religion"; But Why Did They Think That They Were Right?; Leading Questions: On Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees; References; PART I: The Prehistory of the Study of Religion; 2 Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury; Forming a Common Mind about Religion in Early Modern Europe; Natural Religion, Naturism, the Religion of Nature, and Revealed Religion; Religious Wars, the New World, and the Concept of Religion
A Time of Problems and Creative Ferment TooJean Bodin: Comparing Law Teaches Us How To Compare Religions; The True Religion Must Be the Oldest Religion; Natural Religion Is the Essence of Religion: Herbert of Cherbury; Herbert's "Ambidextrous" Theory of Natural Religion; References; Further Reading; 3 Understanding Religion Also Began with Trying to Understand the Bible; The Bible's New Readers: Skeptics and Seekers; "Frodo Lives!" Myth, History, and Mystery; Biblical Criticism's New Methods; Higher Criticism: Internal Discrepancies; Spinoza Major Protestant Players: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen SchoolThe Quest for the Historical Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss; What E.B. Tylor and Max Müller Learned from the Biblical Critics; References; Further Reading; PART II: Classic Nineteenth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion; 4 Max Müller, the Comparative Study of Religion, and the Search for Other Bibles in India; Max Müller in the Center of a Whirlwind; The Bible and Beyond; Müller's Theological Liberalism and Comparison of Religions; The Discovery of the East-West Link in Sanskrit Max Müller's "Romantic" Comparativism and Western ImperialismThe Search for Germany's National Soul in India ... of All Places; German Unity via Hindu Myth; What Max Müller Can Teach Us about Studying Religion; References; Further Reading; 5 The Shock of the "Savage"; Mr. Tylor and His Science; Animism as the True Natural Religion and First Attempts at Science; 1859 and All That: The Discovery of the European "Primitive"; The Caves and Their Religion; Does Religious or Cultural Evolution Make Sense?; We Have Met the Primitives, and "They" Are "Us"; References; Further Reading 6 The Religion of the Bible EvolvesThe Religion of the Bible and Its Problems; The Great Renown and Short Heretical Life of William Robertson Smith; Abdullah Effendi Smith of Arabia; Robertson Smith's "Arabian Revolution" in the Study of Religion; Robertson Smith and Higher Criticism: Wellhausen, Comparison, and Context; Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites; Robertson Smith Can Still Teach Us a Lot; References; Further Reading; 7 Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation; The Long Life and Great Renown of Sir James Frazer; How Did We Get from "There" to "Here" ... Again? From Magic to Religion to Technology, Not Science |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459958303321 |
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Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (894 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.7 |
Collana | New York Academy of Sciences |
Soggetto topico | Religion - Methodology |
ISBN |
1-394-26101-2
1-118-45772-2 1-118-45770-6 |
Classificazione |
161.1
200.7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Dedication page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Introduction; A New Kind of Method and Theory Book; From Religion to the "Problems of Religion"; But Why Did They Think That They Were Right?; Leading Questions: On Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees; References; PART I: The Prehistory of the Study of Religion; 2 Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury; Forming a Common Mind about Religion in Early Modern Europe; Natural Religion, Naturism, the Religion of Nature, and Revealed Religion; Religious Wars, the New World, and the Concept of Religion
A Time of Problems and Creative Ferment TooJean Bodin: Comparing Law Teaches Us How To Compare Religions; The True Religion Must Be the Oldest Religion; Natural Religion Is the Essence of Religion: Herbert of Cherbury; Herbert's "Ambidextrous" Theory of Natural Religion; References; Further Reading; 3 Understanding Religion Also Began with Trying to Understand the Bible; The Bible's New Readers: Skeptics and Seekers; "Frodo Lives!" Myth, History, and Mystery; Biblical Criticism's New Methods; Higher Criticism: Internal Discrepancies; Spinoza Major Protestant Players: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen SchoolThe Quest for the Historical Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss; What E.B. Tylor and Max Müller Learned from the Biblical Critics; References; Further Reading; PART II: Classic Nineteenth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion; 4 Max Müller, the Comparative Study of Religion, and the Search for Other Bibles in India; Max Müller in the Center of a Whirlwind; The Bible and Beyond; Müller's Theological Liberalism and Comparison of Religions; The Discovery of the East-West Link in Sanskrit Max Müller's "Romantic" Comparativism and Western ImperialismThe Search for Germany's National Soul in India ... of All Places; German Unity via Hindu Myth; What Max Müller Can Teach Us about Studying Religion; References; Further Reading; 5 The Shock of the "Savage"; Mr. Tylor and His Science; Animism as the True Natural Religion and First Attempts at Science; 1859 and All That: The Discovery of the European "Primitive"; The Caves and Their Religion; Does Religious or Cultural Evolution Make Sense?; We Have Met the Primitives, and "They" Are "Us"; References; Further Reading 6 The Religion of the Bible EvolvesThe Religion of the Bible and Its Problems; The Great Renown and Short Heretical Life of William Robertson Smith; Abdullah Effendi Smith of Arabia; Robertson Smith's "Arabian Revolution" in the Study of Religion; Robertson Smith and Higher Criticism: Wellhausen, Comparison, and Context; Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites; Robertson Smith Can Still Teach Us a Lot; References; Further Reading; 7 Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation; The Long Life and Great Renown of Sir James Frazer; How Did We Get from "There" to "Here" ... Again? From Magic to Religion to Technology, Not Science |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910796934603321 |
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Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
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Understanding theories of religion : an introduction / / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Edizione | [Second edition.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (894 p.) |
Disciplina | 200.7 |
Collana | New York Academy of Sciences |
Soggetto topico | Religion - Methodology |
ISBN |
1-394-26101-2
1-118-45772-2 1-118-45770-6 |
Classificazione |
161.1
200.7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Dedication page; Title page; Copyright page; Preface to the Second Edition; 1 Introduction; A New Kind of Method and Theory Book; From Religion to the "Problems of Religion"; But Why Did They Think That They Were Right?; Leading Questions: On Seeing Both the Forest and the Trees; References; PART I: The Prehistory of the Study of Religion; 2 Jean Bodin and Herbert of Cherbury; Forming a Common Mind about Religion in Early Modern Europe; Natural Religion, Naturism, the Religion of Nature, and Revealed Religion; Religious Wars, the New World, and the Concept of Religion
A Time of Problems and Creative Ferment TooJean Bodin: Comparing Law Teaches Us How To Compare Religions; The True Religion Must Be the Oldest Religion; Natural Religion Is the Essence of Religion: Herbert of Cherbury; Herbert's "Ambidextrous" Theory of Natural Religion; References; Further Reading; 3 Understanding Religion Also Began with Trying to Understand the Bible; The Bible's New Readers: Skeptics and Seekers; "Frodo Lives!" Myth, History, and Mystery; Biblical Criticism's New Methods; Higher Criticism: Internal Discrepancies; Spinoza Major Protestant Players: Ferdinand Christian Baur and the Tübingen SchoolThe Quest for the Historical Jesus: David Friedrich Strauss; What E.B. Tylor and Max Müller Learned from the Biblical Critics; References; Further Reading; PART II: Classic Nineteenth-Century Theorists of the Study of Religion; 4 Max Müller, the Comparative Study of Religion, and the Search for Other Bibles in India; Max Müller in the Center of a Whirlwind; The Bible and Beyond; Müller's Theological Liberalism and Comparison of Religions; The Discovery of the East-West Link in Sanskrit Max Müller's "Romantic" Comparativism and Western ImperialismThe Search for Germany's National Soul in India ... of All Places; German Unity via Hindu Myth; What Max Müller Can Teach Us about Studying Religion; References; Further Reading; 5 The Shock of the "Savage"; Mr. Tylor and His Science; Animism as the True Natural Religion and First Attempts at Science; 1859 and All That: The Discovery of the European "Primitive"; The Caves and Their Religion; Does Religious or Cultural Evolution Make Sense?; We Have Met the Primitives, and "They" Are "Us"; References; Further Reading 6 The Religion of the Bible EvolvesThe Religion of the Bible and Its Problems; The Great Renown and Short Heretical Life of William Robertson Smith; Abdullah Effendi Smith of Arabia; Robertson Smith's "Arabian Revolution" in the Study of Religion; Robertson Smith and Higher Criticism: Wellhausen, Comparison, and Context; Smith's Lectures on the Religion of the Semites; Robertson Smith Can Still Teach Us a Lot; References; Further Reading; 7 Setting the Eternal Templates of Salvation; The Long Life and Great Renown of Sir James Frazer; How Did We Get from "There" to "Here" ... Again? From Magic to Religion to Technology, Not Science |
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Why politics can't be freed from religion [[electronic resource] /] / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
Disciplina |
201.72
201/.72 |
Collana | Blackwell manifestos |
Soggetto topico |
Religion and politics
Political science |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-48244-0
9786612482441 1-4443-1915-9 1-4443-1916-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139502303321 |
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Why politics can't be freed from religion [[electronic resource] /] / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
Disciplina |
201.72
201/.72 |
Collana | Blackwell manifestos |
Soggetto topico |
Religion and politics
Political science |
ISBN |
1-282-48244-0
9786612482441 1-4443-1915-9 1-4443-1916-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830738003321 |
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Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 | ||
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Why politics can't be freed from religion [[electronic resource] /] / Ivan Strenski |
Autore | Strenski Ivan |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (218 p.) |
Disciplina |
201.72
201/.72 |
Collana | Blackwell manifestos |
Soggetto topico |
Religion and politics
Political science |
ISBN |
1-282-48244-0
9786612482441 1-4443-1915-9 1-4443-1916-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910840904903321 |
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