Why Politics Can't Be Freed From ReligionISBN: 978-1-4051-7649-1
Hardcover
216 pages
March 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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- A timely and highly original contribution to debates about religion, politics and power – and how historic and social influences have prejudiced our understanding of what these mean
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Proposes a new theoretical framework to think about what these ideas and institutions mean in today’s society
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Applies this new perspective to a variety of real-world issues, including insights into suicide bombers in the Middle East
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Includes radical critiques of the religious and political perspectives of thinkers such as Talal Asad and Michel Foucault
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Dislodges our conventional thinking about politics and religion, and in doing so, helps make sense of the complexities of our twenty-first century world