Cultivating New Post-Secular Political Space

ISBN-13: 9780367730307 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 150 str.

Roger Haydon Mitchell

Opis

This book explores how positive interventions might be made into post-secular political spaces that have emerged in the wake of the economic, political and social upheavals of the 2008 global financial crisis. It was originally published online as a special issue of the journal Global Discourse.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Cultivating new post-secular political space  2. Beyond populist politics: why conventional politics needs to conjure myths of its own and why it struggles to do so  3. Between radical orthodoxy and the turn to the empirical: a reply to Stacey  4. What are the politics of love?  5. Examining self-love, love of the ‘other’ and love of the ‘enemy’: a reply to Mitchell  6. Friendship and the new politics: beyond community  7. Friendship in politics, community, populism and liberalism: a response to Nordin and Smith  8. The decay of Western liberalism and the Christological alternative  9. The decay of western liberalism and the christological alternative: a reply to Ben Wood  10. Love your enemy? An aesthetic discourse analysis of self-transcendence in values-motivated altruism  11. Carving a dialogical epistemology for investigating altruism: A reply to Mitchell and Eiroa–Orosa  12. Transcending the tribalism of the culture wars spectrum  13. Neo-Gnosticism, ideology and the culture wars: the contemplative antidote – perennial tensions: a reply to Jersak

O autorze

Roger Haydon Mitchell is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at the University of Lancaster, UK, where he is the partnerships coordinator for the Richardson Institute for Peace Studies. He is also a member of faculty at the Westminster Theological Centre, UK.