Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty /

Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty /

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 o...

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Other Authors: Stack, Trevor, 1970-, Goldenberg, Naomi R., Fitzgerald, Timothy, 1947-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. c2015.

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 3.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Religion and politics.
Religion and state.

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Call Number: BL65.P7 R45 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Trevor Stack , Naomi R. Goldenberg and Timothy Fitzgerald
  • Introduction /
  • Trevor Stack
  • Who is Madame M? Staking Out the Borders of Secular France /
  • Per-Erik Nilsson
  • "Citizens" and Their Stance toward "Religion" /
  • Trevor Stack
  • "A New Form of Government": Religious-Secular Distinctions in Pueblo Indian History /
  • Tisa Wenger
  • The Category of "Religion" in Public Classification: Charity Registration of The Druid Network in England and Wales /
  • Suzanne Owen and Teemu Taira
  • Sikhs, Sovereignty and Modern Government /
  • Arvind-Pal Mandair
  • The Ancestral, the Religiopolitical /
  • David U.B. Liu
  • Exclusive Pluralism: The Problems of Habermas' Postsecular Argument and the "Making of" Religion /
  • Maria Birnbaum
  • Capabilities, Religionizing Effects and Contemporary Jewishness /
  • Jeffrey Israel
  • Government, University and the Category of Religion: A Response from Critical Theology /
  • Brian Brock
  • Negative Liberty, Liberal Faith Postulates and World Disorder /
  • Timothy Fitzgerald
  • The Category of Religion in the Technology of Governance: An Argument for Understanding Religions as Vestigial States /
  • Naomi R. Goldenberg
  • Interrogating the Categories: Of Religion, Politics and the Space Between /
  • Geraldine Finn
  • Afterword /
  • Naomi R. Goldenberg
  • Index /
  • Trevor Stack , Naomi R. Goldenberg and Timothy Fitzgerald.