Ivan Strenski

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Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion is an original, erudite, and timely new book from Ivan Strenski. Itinterrogates the central ideas and contexts behind religion, politics, and power, proposing an alternative way in which we should think about these issues in the twenty-first century. * A timely and highly original contribution to debates about religion, politics and power - and how historic and social influences have prejudiced our understanding of these concepts * Proposes a new theoretical framework to think about what these ideas and institutions mean in today&'s society * Applies this new perspective to a variety of real-world issues, including insights into suicide bombers in the Middle East * Includes radical critiques of the religious and political perspectives of thinkers such as Talal Asad and Michel Foucault * Dislodges our conventional thinking about politics and religion, and in doing so, helps make sense of the complexities of our twenty-first century world

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Autor

Ivan Strenski is Holstein Family and Community Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of numerous books, including: Contesting Sacrifice: Religion, Nationalism and Social Thought (2002); Theology and the First Theory of Sacrifice (2003); The New Durkheim: Essays on Philosophy, Religious Identity and the Politics of Knowledge (2006); Thinking About Religion: An Historical Introduction to Theories of Religion and Thinking About Religion: A Reader (both Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444319163
• Artikelnr.: 37338119

Rezensionen

"Overall the book is an excellentcontribution." (Political Studies Review, 1January 2013)

"But as a powerful myth-buster of some of the great fallaciesabout religion and politics, or even as a primer in the study ofreligion for undergraduates, it works very well and would serve toprovoke lively debate." (Modern Believing, 1April 2012)

"The book is written in an accessible and engaging style, andreaders who are new to the field of religion and politics will findit readable and helpful". (Religion, September 2010)"Going beyond the religion-is-good and the religion-is-badclichés, while also distancing himself from fashionableacademic eliminationists, Ivan Strenski examines the connectionsamong religion, power and politics. Is religion merely'used' by fanatics, as if it were an inert hammer thatcan be picked up or dropped at will? Is it to be equated withbelief? Or with power, à la Foucault? Or is it, rather,inseparable from authority? Most readers are likely to have theirpresuppositions shaken by Strenski's Manifesto."
--Gustavo Benavides, Villanova University