Political Theology for a Plural Age

Herausgeber: Kessler, Michael Jon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Political Theology for a Plural Age provides historic and contemporary understandings of political engagement in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, engaging political theologies not merely as a set of theoretical concepts but as religious beliefs and principles that motivate specific political action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780199769278
• ISBN-10: 0199769273
• Artikelnr.: 36693693

Autorenporträt

Associate Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

Inhaltsangabe

* Contributors
* Introduction, Michael Kessler
* Part I: Theologies of the Political: A Conversation
* José Casanova, Michael Kessler, Mark Lilla, and John Milbank
* Part II: Domesticating Religion: The Abrahamic Faiths and the
Democratic State
* Chapter 2: The Great Combination: Modern Political Thought and the
Collapse of the Two Cities, Patrick Deneen
* Chapter 3: The Emergence and Development of Liberal Jewish Political
Theology, Jerome Copulsky
* Chapter 4: Christianity and the Rise of the Democratic State, Eric
Gregory
* Chapter 5: Is the King a Democrat? The Politics of Islam in Morocco,
Paul Heck
* Part III: Confronting Pluralism: Main Trends in Political Theologies
Today
* Chapter 6: Difference, Resemblance, Dialogue: Some Goals for
Comparative Political Theology in a Plural Age, Michael Kessler
* Chapter 7: ''Reading'' the Status of Public Theologies: Rhetorical
Analysis of the Media Construction of Political Islam, Elizabeth
Bucar
* Chapter 8: The Future of Political Theology: From Crisis to
Pluralism, Robin Lovin
* Chapter 9: Doing Political Theology Today, David Novak
* Chapter 10: Augustinian Christian Republican Citizenship, Charles
Mathewes
* Chapter 11: Islamic Political Theologies and International Relations,
Jocelyne Cesari
* Index