Politics and the Sacred

ISBN-13: 9781107428102 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 274 str.

Harald Wydra

Opis

Argues that practices of the sacred have shaped the frames of modern secular politics.

Recenzje

'Two of the driving forces in contemporary life - politics and the sacred - are not necessarily separate, as this thoughtful book reveals. The striking analysis focuses on lived aspects of practice and performance rather than on images and concepts, and its arresting reconception of both politics and the sacred is brought to life in chapters that focus on communism, democracy, human rights and collective victimhood. These fertile ideas will change our ways of thinking about the way politics and religion interact and how they affect public life in the global era.' Mark Juergensmeyer, author of Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State

Spis treści

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.