Political Theologies Public Religions in a Post-Secular World

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I. WHAT ARE POLITICAL THEOLOGIES? The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities MARCEL DETIENNE Church, State, Resistance JEAN-LUG NANCY The Scandal of Religion: Luther and Public Speech in the Reformation ANT6NIA SZABARI On the Names of God ERNESTO LACLAU Critique, Coercion, and Sacred Life in Benjamin`s `Critique of Violence` JUDITH BUTLER Levinas, Spinoza, and the Theologico-Political Meaning of Scripture HENT DE VRIES PART II. BEYOND TOLERANCE: PLURALISM AND AGONISTIC REASON Subjects of Tolerance: Why We Are Civilized and They Are the Barbarians WENDY BROWN Religion, Liberal Democracy, and Citizenship CHANTAL MOUFFE Toleration Without Tolerance: Enlightenment and the Image of Reason LARS TONDER Saint John: The Miracle of Secular Reason MATTHEW SCHERER PART III. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANISM, SECULARISM, AND BEYOND Reinhabiting Civil Disobedience BHRICUPATI SINGH The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed VEENA DAS How to Recognize a Muslim When You See One: Western Secularism and the Politics of Conversion MARKHA G. VALENTA Trying to Understand French Secularism TALAL ASAD PART IV. OPENING SOCIETIES AND THE RIGHTS OF THE HUMAN Mysticism and the Foundation of the Open Society: Bergsonian Politics PAOLA MARRATI Theoscopy: Transparency, Omnipotence, and Modernity STEFANOS GEROULANOS The Right Not to Use Rights: Human Rights and the Structure of Judgments WERNER HAMACHER