Crediting God : sovereignty and religion in the age of global capitalism

Crediting God : sovereignty and religion in the age of global capitalism /

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 re-entered the public sphere because it puts into question the relation between God and the concept...

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Other Authors: Vatter, Miguel E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies.
Subjects:
Religion and politics > Congresses.
Globalization > Religious aspects > Congresses.
Capitalism > Religious aspects > Congresses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Religion and polity-building. Religious freedom: preserving the salt of the earth / Fred Dallmayr
  • A new form of religious consciousness?: religion and politics in contemporary Muslim contexts / Abdou Filali-Ansary
  • A republic whose sovereign is the creator: the politics of the ban of representation / Shmuel Trigano
  • Confucianism's political implications for the contemporary world / Ranjoo Seodu Herr
  • Religion and the public sphere in Senegal: the evolution of a project of modernity / Souleymane Bachir Diagne
  • 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 / Georges Dreyfus
  • All nightmares back: dependency and independency theories, religion, capitalism, and global society / Hauke Brunkhorst
  • The evangelical-capitalist resonance machine / William E. Connolly
  • Questioning sovereignty: law and justice. "The war has not ended": Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the paradoxes of countersovereignty / Freidrich Balke
  • Natural right and state of exception in Leo Strauss / Miguel Vatter
  • Law and the gift of justice / Samuel Weber
  • The religion of democracy: Tocqueville beyond civil religion. The religious situation in the United States 175 years after Toqueville / Jose Casanova
  • The avatars of religion in Tocqueville / Lucien Jaume
  • Publics, prosperity, and politics: the changing face of African American Christianity and Black political life / Eddie Glaude
  • Conversion / Thomas L. Dumm.

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