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020 $a9781107075375$qhardback
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035 $a(OCoLC)901059087
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050 00 $aBL65.P7$bW93 2015
082 00 $a201/.72$223
084 $aPOL010000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aWydra, Harald,$eauthor.
245 10 $aPolitics and the sacred /$cHarald Wydra.
264 1 $aCambridge, United Kingdom :$bCambridge University Press,$c2015.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $aix, 264 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction. The sacred and the political; 1. The extraordinary and the political imagination; 2. The politics of transcendence; 3. Secular sources of political theologies; 4. Democracy and the sacred; 5. The power of symbols: Communism and beyond; 6. Generations of European imaginations; 7. The spell of humanity; 8. Victim and new wars; Epilogue. Rationalities of the sacred.
520 $a"This path-breaking book argues that practices of the sacred are constitutive of modern secular politics. Following a tradition of enquiry in anthropology and political theory, it examines how limit situations shape the political imagination and collective identity. As an experiential and cultural fact, the sacred emerges within, and simultaneously transcends, transgressive dynamics such as revolutions, wars, or globalisation. Rather than conceive the sacred as a religious doctrine or a metaphysical belief, Wydra examines its adaptive functions as origins, truths, and order which are historically contingent across time and transformative of political aspirations. He suggests that the brokenness of political reality is a permanent condition of humanity, which will continue to produce quests for the sacred, and transcendental political frames. This book examines the secular sources of political theologies, the democratic sacred, the communist imagination, European political identity, the sources of human rights, and the relationship of victimhood to new wars"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"This path-breaking book argues that practices of the sacred are constitutive of modern secular politics. Following a tradition of enquiry in anthropology and political theory, it examines how limit situations shape the political imagination and collective identity. As an experiential and cultural fact, the sacred emerges within, and simultaneously transcends, transgressive dynamics such as revolutions, wars, or globalisation"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aReligion and politics.
650 7 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aReligion and politics.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01093842
650 7 $aReligion.$0(DE-588)4049396-9$2gnd
650 7 $aPolitik.$0(DE-588)4046514-7$2gnd
650 7 $aDas Heilige.$0(DE-588)4128109-3$2gnd
852 00 $bglx$hBL65.P7$iW93 2015