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Crediting God : Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: US : Fordham University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (384 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823233212
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Crediting GodDDC classification:
  • 201.7
LOC classification:
  • BL65.P7 -- C73 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- contents -- acknowledgments -- Credi t ing God -- Crediting God with Sovereignty -- Religion and Polity-Building -- Religious Freedom: Preserving the Salt of the Earth -- A New Form of Religious Consciousness? Religion and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Contexts -- A Republic Whose Sovereign Is the Creator: The Politics of the Ban of Representation -- Confucianism's Political Implications for the Contemporary World -- Religion and the Public Sphere in Senegal: The Evolution of a Project of Modernity -- The End of the Saeculum and Global Capitalism -- Should We Be Scared? The Return of the Sacred and the Rise of Religious Nationalism in South Asia -- All Nightmares Back: Dependency and Independency Theories, Religion, Capitalism, and Global Society -- The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine -- Questioning Sovereignty: Law and Justice -- ''The War Has Not Ended'': Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the Paradoxes of Countersovereignty -- Natural Right and State of Exception in Leo Strauss -- Law and the Gift of Justice -- Drawing-the Single Trait: Toward a Politics of Singularity -- The Religion of Democracy: Tocqueville Beyond Civil Religion -- The Religious Situation in the United States 175 Years After Tocqueville -- The Avatars of Religion in Tocqueville -- Publics, Prosperity, and Politics: The Changing Face of African American Christianity and Black Political Life -- Conversion.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- contents -- acknowledgments -- Credi t ing God -- Crediting God with Sovereignty -- Religion and Polity-Building -- Religious Freedom: Preserving the Salt of the Earth -- A New Form of Religious Consciousness? Religion and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Contexts -- A Republic Whose Sovereign Is the Creator: The Politics of the Ban of Representation -- Confucianism's Political Implications for the Contemporary World -- Religion and the Public Sphere in Senegal: The Evolution of a Project of Modernity -- The End of the Saeculum and Global Capitalism -- Should We Be Scared? The Return of the Sacred and the Rise of Religious Nationalism in South Asia -- All Nightmares Back: Dependency and Independency Theories, Religion, Capitalism, and Global Society -- The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine -- Questioning Sovereignty: Law and Justice -- ''The War Has Not Ended'': Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the Paradoxes of Countersovereignty -- Natural Right and State of Exception in Leo Strauss -- Law and the Gift of Justice -- Drawing-the Single Trait: Toward a Politics of Singularity -- The Religion of Democracy: Tocqueville Beyond Civil Religion -- The Religious Situation in the United States 175 Years After Tocqueville -- The Avatars of Religion in Tocqueville -- Publics, Prosperity, and Politics: The Changing Face of African American Christianity and Black Political Life -- Conversion.

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.

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