Theology and world politics : metaphysics, genealogies, political theologies

Theology and world politics : metaphysics, genealogies, political theologies / Vassilios Paipais, editor.

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology. Contributions to this collection highlight the political theological foundations of international theory and world politics, recasting t...

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Other Authors: Paipais, Vassilios
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Series:International political theory.
Subjects:
Religion and politics.
Theology.
theology.
Religion & politics.
Social & political philosophy.
History of ideas.
International relations.
Political science & theory.
Religion > Religion, Politics & State.
Philosophy > Political.
Science > History.
Political Science > International Relations > General.
Political Science > History & Theory.
Religion and politics
Theology
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction: Religion or Theology? (re)introducing political theology into the study of world politics (Vassilios Paipais)
  • PART I Metaphysics
  • Chapter 2 'Obligations written in the heart': Burke's primacy of association and the renewal of political theology (Adrian Pabst)
  • Chapter 3 The Political Theology of Thomas Hobbes and the Theory of Interstate Society (William Bain)
  • Chapter 4 A Matter of Faith: Derrida, Žižek, and The Fourth 'Overcoming of Gnosis' (Agata Bielik-Robson)
  • Chapter 5 The Cosmology of Mādhyamaka Buddhism and its World of Deep Relationalism (Shannon Brincat)
  • PART II Genealogies
  • Chapter 6 Between Transcendence and Necessity: Eric Voegelin, Martin Wight and the crisis of modern international relations (Nicholas Rengger)
  • Chapter 7 Political Theology and Sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in Our Times (Mustapha Kamal Pasha)
  • Chapter 8 The Nation, the Nations and the Third Nation: The political essence of early Christianity (György Geréby)
  • Chapter 9 On a Stasis of Memory or Disrupting the Postliminium (Ilias Papagiannopoulos)
  • PART III Political Theologies
  • Chapter 10 Total War and Limited Government: the German Catholic Debate at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Michael Hollerich)
  • Chapter 11 Love as a Practice of Peace: the political theologies of Tolstoy, Gandhi and King (Liane Hartnett)
  • Chapter 12 Reading Kant in the Light of Political Theology (Sean Molloy)
  • Chapter 13 Religiosity with/out Religion: Hans J. Morgenthau, Disenchantment and International Politics (John-Harmen Valk).

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