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Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion
Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion, <i>Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion</i> 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 abo, Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion has a rating of 3 stars
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  • Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion
  • Written by author Ivan Strenski
  • Published by Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, March 2010
  • 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 abo
  • Religion. Power. Politics. Ideas and institutions that have been laden with a baggage of meanings picked up through the course of history – and which, unfairly or not, are often defined by these historic and social contexts. In this thought-provokin
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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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