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Crediting God - Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism (Hardcover, New)
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Crediting God - Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism (Hardcover, New)
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Tocqueville suggested that "the people reign in the American
political world like God over the universe." This intuition
anticipates the crisis in the secularization paradigm that has
brought theology back as a fundamental part of sociological and
political analysis. It has become more difficult to believe that
humanity's progress necessarily leads to atheism, or that it is
possible to translate all that is good about religion into
reasonable terms acceptable in principle by all, believers as well
as nonbelievers. And yet, the spread of Enlightenment values, of an
independent public sphere, and of alternative "projects of
modernity" continues unabated and is by no means the antithesis of
the renewed vigor of religious beliefs. 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 reentered the
public sphere because it puts into question the relation between
God and the concept of political sovereignty. In the first part,
"Religion and Polity-Building," new perspectives are brought to
bear on the tension-ridden connection between theophany and
state-building from the perspective of world religions. Globalized,
neo-liberal capitalism has been another crucial factor in loosening
the bond between God and the state, as the essays in the second
part, "The End of the Saeculum and Global Capitalism," show. The
essays in the third part, "Questioning Sovereignty: Law and
Justice," are dedicated to a critique of the premises of political
theology, starting from the possibility of a prior, perhaps deeper
relation between democracy and theocracy. The book concludes with
three innovative essays dedicated to examining Tocqueville in order
to think the "Religion of Democracy" beyond the idea of civil
religion.
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