An edition of Why politics can't be freed from religion
(2010)
Why politics can't be freed from religion
by Ivan Strenski
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Why Politics Can't Be Freed from Religion
2010, Wiley & Sons, Limited, John
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Why Politics Can't Be Freed from Religion
2010, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
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Table of Contents
Foreword
Interrogating religion
Religion trouble
Seeing religion : six common clichés
Gagging at the feast of two unexamined assumptions : religion, all good or all bad
Politics using religion : anatomy of a cliché
The religion-is-no-good cliché
The second set of two clichés : religion is belief and belief in God
Religion's private parts
Powerless in paradise
Two ways to eliminate religion
Is religion our phlogiston? : an historical test case
Talal Asad's religion trouble
The trick of defining religion
Owning religion
How Durkheim took ownership of religion
Religion and its despisers
Interrogating power
Confronting the paradox of power
How power plays havoc with thinking about institutional violence
Whom should we blame? : history on trial
History's helper : we should also blameFoucault
Problematizing power in South Africa
Foucault versus Foucault
Thinking about power as Auctoritas and hierarchy
What more is to be done? : thinking about power as Auctoritas and social force
Interrogating politics
Where there is no politics : despotism and totalitarianism
Autonomous politics
Where our politics makes no sense
Politics, the construct
Two pernicious views of politics
History lessons for Professor Morgenthau
What constitutionalism owes the Council of Constance
The emergence of the political from the religious
Machiavelli and Luther : critical contributions to the autonomy of politics
Foucault's fault II : everything is political
The hidden fascism of thinking that everything is political
Public and private : no absolute line of demarcation
Resisting panopticon
Afterword: The autonomy of politics and the nation-state
Testing interrogations of religion, power, and politics : human bomber and the authority of sacrifice in the Middle East
Is suicide bombing religious?
Making too much of religion in suicide bombing : Islamofascism
Dying to make too little of religion in suicide bombing : Robert A. Pape
No religion in suicide bombing : Talal Asad
How religion helps explain human bombing
Human bombing is catastrophe, but also a triumph of secular immortality
Human bombing = jihad + sacrifice
Sacrifice or suicide?
But do any Muslims really think human bombers are sacrifices?
Sacrifice makes authority
How and why sacrifice works : the authority of sacralization
How and why sacrifice works : no free gifts.
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