Why politics can't be freed from religion
Strenski, Ivan2010
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Ivan Strenski unpacks the central concepts and influences of religion, politics and power, and provides a new theoretical framework to think about what they mean in today's society.
Main title:
Why politics can't be freed from religion / by Ivan Strenski
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Imprint:
Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2010
Collation:
204 p.
Contents:
1. When God Plays Politics: Radical Interrogations of Religion, Power, and Politics -- 2. Interrogating Religion: 1. Religion Trouble - 2. Seeing tReligion: 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. Religions Private Parts - 7. Powerless in Paradise - 8. Two Ways to Eliminate Religion - 9. Is Religion Our Phlogiston? An Historical Test Case - 10. Talal Asads Religion Trouble - 11. 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. Historys 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 Force -- 4. 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. Foucaults Fault II: Everything Is Political
ISBN:
9781405176484 (pbk)
Dewey class:
201.72 WHY
Local class:
201.72
Language:
English
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BRN:
38613
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Clair | Nonfiction | 201.72 WHY | Available |