Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty / / edited by Trevor Stack, Naomi Goldenberg, Timothy Fitzgerald ; contributors, Brian Brock [and eleven others].

• Superior document: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ; Volume 3
• TeilnehmendeR: Stack, Trevor, 1970-; Goldenberg, Naomi R.,; Fitzgerald, Timothy, 1947-; Brock, Brian,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; Volume 3.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 pages) :; illustrations.

Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government. They draw on perspectives from history, anthropology, moral philosophy, theology and religious studies, as well as empirical analysis of India, Japan, Mexico, the United States, Israel-Palestine, France and the United Kingdom.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Trevor Stack , Naomi R. Goldenberg and Timothy Fitzgerald -- Introduction / Trevor Stack -- Who is Madame M? Staking Out the Borders of Secular France / Per-Erik Nilsson -- “Citizens” and Their Stance toward “Religion” / Trevor Stack -- “A New Form of Government”: Religious-Secular Distinctions in Pueblo Indian History / Tisa Wenger -- The Category of “Religion” in Public Classification: Charity Registration of The Druid Network in England and Wales / Suzanne Owen and Teemu Taira -- Sikhs, Sovereignty and Modern Government / Arvind-Pal Mandair -- The Ancestral, the Religiopolitical / David U.B. Liu -- Exclusive Pluralism: The Problems of Habermas’ Postsecular Argument and the “Making of” Religion / Maria Birnbaum -- Capabilities, Religionizing Effects and Contemporary Jewishness / Jeffrey Israel -- Government, University and the Category of Religion: A Response from Critical Theology / Brian Brock -- Negative Liberty, Liberal Faith Postulates and World Disorder / Timothy Fitzgerald -- The Category of Religion in the Technology of Governance: An Argument for Understanding Religions as Vestigial States / Naomi R. Goldenberg -- Interrogating the Categories: Of Religion, Politics and the Space Between / Geraldine Finn -- Afterword / Naomi R. Goldenberg -- Index / Trevor Stack , Naomi R. Goldenberg and Timothy Fitzgerald.