Crediting God : Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism.
Vatter, Miguel.
Crediting God : Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (384 pages)
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.
9780823233212
Capitalism - Religious aspects.
Electronic books.
BL65.P7 -- C73 2011eb
201.7
Crediting God : Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (384 pages)
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.
9780823233212
Capitalism - Religious aspects.
Electronic books.
BL65.P7 -- C73 2011eb
201.7