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

• Autore: Strenski Ivan
• Pubblicazione: Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 201.72; 201/.72
• Soggetto topico: Religion and politics; Political science
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Why politics can't be freed from religion
• ISBN: 9786612482441; 9781282482449; 1282482440; 9781444319156; 1444319159; 9781444319163; 1444319167
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9911020041403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell manifestos.