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Sovereignty and the Sacred - Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion (Paperback)
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Sovereignty and the Sacred - Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion (Paperback)
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Sovereignty and the Sacred challenges contemporary models of polity
and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of
religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the
history of European political theology between the sacred and the
sovereign as creating "states of exception"--that is, moments of
rupture in the normative order that, by transcending this order,
are capable of re-founding or remaking it--Robert A. Yelle
identifies our secular, capitalist system as an attempt to exclude
such moments by subordinating them to the calculability of laws and
markets. The second step marshals evidence from history and
anthropology that helps us to recognize the contribution of such
states of exception to ethical life, as a means of release from the
legal or economic order. Yelle draws on evidence from the Hebrew
Bible to English deism, and from the Aztecs to ancient India, to
develop a theory of polity that finds a place and a purpose for
those aspects of religion that are often marginalized and dismissed
as irrational by Enlightenment liberalism and utilitarianism.
Developing this close analogy between two elemental domains of
society, Sovereignty and the Sacred offers a new theory of religion
while suggesting alternative ways of organizing our political and
economic life. By rethinking the transcendent foundations and
liberating potential of both religion and politics, Yelle points to
more hopeful and ethical modes of collective life based on
egalitarianism and popular sovereignty. Deliberately countering the
narrowness of currently dominant economic, political, and legal
theories, he demonstrates the potential of a revived history of
religions to contribute to a rethinking of the foundations of our
political and social order.
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