This book demonstrates how practices of the sacred have shaped political frames in a secular age. It examines the political imagination, collective identity, varieties of political theology, the democratic sacred, Soviet communism, the European imagination, the spell of humanity, and the relationship of victimhood to new wars.
This book demonstrates how practices of the sacred have shaped political frames in a secular age. It examines the political imagination, collective identity, varieties of political theology, the democratic sacred, Soviet communism, the European imagination, the spell of humanity, and the relationship of victimhood to new wars.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Harald Wydra is a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He has previously taught political science at the University of Regensburg, held visiting fellowships at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris) and the National University of Australia (Canberra), and was Visiting Professor at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense. He is the founding Editor of the journal International Political Anthropology and his books include Continuities in Poland's Permanent Transition (2001), Communism and the Emergence of Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Democracy and Myth in Russia and Eastern Europe (2008, co-edited with Alexander Wöll) and Breaking Boundaries: Varieties of Liminality (2015, co-edited with Agnes Horvath and Bjørn Thomassen).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: the sacred and the political 1. The extraordinary and the political imagination 2. The politics of transcendence 3. Secular sources of political theologies 4. Democracy and the sacred 5. The power of symbols: Communism and beyond 6. Generations of European imaginations 7. The spell of humanity 8. Victim and new wars Epilogue: rationalities of the sacred.
Introduction: the sacred and the political 1. The extraordinary and the political imagination 2. The politics of transcendence 3. Secular sources of political theologies 4. Democracy and the sacred 5. The power of symbols: Communism and beyond 6. Generations of European imaginations 7. The spell of humanity 8. Victim and new wars Epilogue: rationalities of the sacred.
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