1. Edition - February 2010
25.90 Euro
2010. 216 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 1-4051-7648-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-7648-4 - John Wiley & Sons






Sample Chapter

Short description
Why Politics Can't be Freed From Religion is a timely, original contribution to debates about religion, politics and power - and how historic and social influences have prejudiced our understanding of these concepts.Strenski proposes a new framework to think about what these ideas and institutions mean in today's society, applying this new perspective to a variety of real-world issues The book dislodges our conventional thinking about politics and religion, and in doing so, helps make sense of the complexities of our twenty-first century world.

From the contents
1. When God Plays Politics: Radical Interrogations of Religion, Power, and Politics.

2. Interrogating 'Religion'.

3. Interrogating 'Power'.

4. Interrogating 'Politics'.

5. Testing Interrogations of 'Religion,' 'Power,' and 'Politics': Human Bombers and the Authority of Sacrifice in the Middle East.