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Miguel E. . Ed(S): Vatter - Crediting God - 9780823233199 - V9780823233199
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Crediting God

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Description for Crediting God Hardback. The essays in this book shed interdisciplinary and multicultural light on a hypothesis that helps to account for such an unexpected convergence of enlightenment and religion in our times: Religion has reentered the public sphere because it puts into question the relation between God and the concept of political sovereignty. Editor(s): Vatter, Miguel E. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 25. Weight in Grams: 630.

Tocqueville suggested that "the people reign in the American political world like God over the universe.” This intuition anticipates the crisis in the secularization paradigm that has brought theology back as a fundamental part of sociological and political analysis. It has become more difficult to believe that humanity’s progress necessarily leads to atheism, or that it is possible to translate all that is good about religion into reasonable terms acceptable in principle by all, believers as well as nonbelievers. And yet, the spread of Enlightenment values, of an independent public sphere, and of alternative “projects of modernity” continues unabated and ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
374
Condition
New
Number of Pages
374
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823233199
SKU
V9780823233199
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About Miguel E. . Ed(S): Vatter
Miguel Vatter is Professor of Political Science at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is the editor of Crediting God: Religion and Sovereignty in the Age of Global Capitalism (New York, 2010) and author of The Republic of the Living: Affirmative Biopolitics and Civil Society (New York, 2014). He is a founding member of the biopolitics research network ... Read more

Reviews for Crediting God
"Crediting God is a welcome, multidisciplinary contribution to current debates about sovereignty, political theology, and secularism. Ranging across a variety of religious traditions
including Confucianism, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and Christianity
the engaging essays that Miguel Vatter brings together in this volume challenge and deepen our understanding of the political significance of religious fundamentalisms."
-Robert Gooding-Williams The University of Chicago "This volume ... Read more

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