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

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 o...

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Superior document:Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ; Volume 3
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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.
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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.