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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’ 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. 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 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. 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 Asad
5. 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
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