Religion and Politics: Cultural Perspectives Book

Bernhard Giesen and Daniel Šuber, Politics and Religion: An Introduction
Part A – Conceptual Perspectives
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt The Transformations of the Religious Dimension in the Constitution of Contemporary Modernities
Jan Assmann, Axial‘ Breakthroughs and Semantic ‚Relocations‘ in Ancient Egypt and Israel
Mary Douglas, Politics and Religion from an Anthropological Point of View. An Interview with Mary Douglas
Thomas Luckmann, Religion and Morality in Modern Europe Compared to the Religious Situation in the United States of America
Bernhard Giesen, Tales of Transcendence. Imagining the Sacred in Politics
Part B – Religious Origins of Modernity
Jan Assmann Monotheism and Its Political Consequences
Shmuel N. Eisenstadt The Religious Origins of Modern Radical Movements
Jan Assmann, Political Theology. Religion as Legitimizing Fiction in Antique and Early Modern Critique
Part C – Aspects of Secularization
Reinhart Koselleck, Temporal Foreshortening and Acceleration: A Study on Secularization
Rudolf Schlög Secularization: German Catholicism on the Eve of Modernity
Daniel Šuber, Religion, Philosophy and Social Science. The Rise of Modern Social Science from the point of view of Conceptual History
Matthias Koenig, Politics and Religion in European Nation-States. Institutional Varieties and Contemporary Transformations