TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stack,Trevor
AU  - Goldenberg,Naomi
AU  - Fitzgerald,Timothy
TI  - Religion As a Category of Governance and Sovereignty
T2  - Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Series
SN  - 9789004290594
AV  - BL65.P7 R43363 2015 
U1  - 201/.72 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Religion as a Category of Governance and Sovereignty -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Who is Madame M? Staking Out the Borders of Secular France -- 3: "Citizens" and Their Stance toward "Religion" -- 4: "A New Form of Government": Religious-Secular Distinctions in Pueblo Indian History -- 5: The Category of "Religion" in Public Classification: Charity Registration of The Druid Network in England and Wales -- 6: Sikhs, Sovereignty and Modern Government -- 7: The Ancestral, the Religiopolitical -- 8: Exclusive Pluralism: The Problems of Habermas' Postsecular Argument and the "Making of" Religion -- 9: Capabilities, Religionizing Effects and Contemporary Jewishness -- 10: Government, University and the Category of Religion: A Response from Critical Theology -- 11: Negative Liberty, Liberal Faith Postulates and World Disorder -- 12: The Category of Religion in the Technology of Governance: An Argument for Understanding Religions as Vestigial States -- 13: Interrogating the Categories: Of Religion, Politics and the Space Between -- 14: Afterword -- Index
N2  - Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty - as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government
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