Philosophy of religion Books
Fordham University Press Miracle and Machine Jacques Derrida and the Two
Book SynopsisMiracle and Machine is an introduction to the work of Jacques Derrida by means of a detailed reading of his 1994-5 essay “Faith and Knowledge,” Derrida’s most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the unprecedented forms it is taking today through science and the media.Trade Review"With Miracle and Machine, Naas provides us with an extremely rich and highly illuminating reading of Derrida's complex work that permits us to gauge the stakes of this absolutely unique text in Derrida's corpus." -Research in Phenomenology "This book is overflowing with insights and broad perspectives at the same time that it offers an authoritative summation, overview, and progress report on Jacques Derrida's considerable work on religion and its impact on the contemporary world." -- -Henry Sussman Yale University
£31.50
Fordham University Press Thinking about Thinking
Book SynopsisThinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a the practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and thought.Trade ReviewRather than elaborate types, values, classics, or even a phenomenology of conversation, Peperzak draws the reader into an engaging dialogue to rediscover how thought and life can enrich each other. By reconfiguring an array of premodern, modern, and postmodern stances, he presents a mature evaluation of Levinas, human affectivity as an original dative of manifestation that cannot be mastered or exhausted by any conversation, and abundant untimely but eminently applicable wisdom on philosophy’s mediating role in the university and in our culture. In the process we awake from dogmatic and anti-dogmatic slumbers to engage with equal fervor thought and one another. Both his wide circle of grateful readers and newcomers to Peperzak’s oeuvre have much to learn from this stimulating collection.---—Peter Casarella, DePaul University"Thinking about Thinking comprises a set of meditations about the dialogical nature of philosophy and the philosophical life. The fruit of twenty-five years of teaching by a gifted and spirit-filled philosopher, these ten meditations gather around the themes of trust and faith in its several forms, including religious faith and Hegel’s “faith in reason.” As dialogical, philosophizing entails the receiver who is also a responder. Its focus is on the dative case, each participant bringing along the “tradition” that has helped fashion the person he or she is. In effect, it requires the risk that the honest conversation entered into by trusting interlocutors will leave neither party unchanged by the experience. Reading this thoughtful account is itself transformative. It is reminiscent of Foucault’s famous “parrhesiastic contract.”---—Thomas R. Flynn, Emory University
£66.60
Fordham University Press The Early Heideggers Philosophy of Life
Book SynopsisThe topic of this book is the facticity of life and language in the early work of Martin Heidegger, looking at the early lecture courses (1919 to1925). Its aim is to show that Heidegger presents a meaningful view of human life as both riddled with deception and open to insight.Trade Review"Scott Campbell's book is an impressive piece of scholarship concerning a neglected topic, and contains insights that will prove to be of great benefit to the existing Heidegger literature." -- -Marc Lucht Alvernia University "This is a marvelous, painstaking work. Its analyses of Heidegger's lecture courses over a crucial six-year period are meticulous and insightful, and a real contribution to Heidegger scholarship." -- -Anne O'Byrne Stony Brook University
£25.19
Fordham University Press Postmodern Apologetics
Book SynopsisPostmodern Apologetics provides an introduction to contemporary French thinkers who argue for the coherence and viability of Christian faith and religious experience with phenomenological and hermeneutical tools. It treats both French philosophers and appropriations of their thought in the North American context.Trade Review"This book brings together in one place the thought of several philosophers of religion who are not well-known in the English-speaking world, but who have much to say that is relevant to contemporary discussions of religion, whether those discussions occur in philosophy or theology." -- -James Faulconer Brigham Young University "Christina M. Gschwandtner offers a masterful survey of religious themes in contemporary phenomenology, beginning with Heidegger, and ending with contemporary expositors and appropriators of a Derridian Detraction." -- Paul C. Maxwell -Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies "Focuses on Continental phenomenological thinkers whose works prepare and sustain a postmodern apologetic for religion and more specifically Christianity; also discusses their American interpreters." -The Chronicle of Higher Education
£71.10
Fordham University Press Divine Enticement Theological Seductions
Book SynopsisDivine Enticement argues for a reconception of theology and its subject matter as modes of seduction, of both body and mind. Theological language as evocation opens onto rereadings of faith, sacrament, ethics, prayer, and scripture. The conclusion argues for a sense of theology as calling upon infinite possibility.Trade Review"MacKendrick mines a Platonically-inflected Christian tradition to reimagine for today how to ask the question of God in an intertwining of memory, desire, and words that are both excessive and inadequate. Valentinus, Augustine, Nietzsche, and Chretien are among the stunning array of conversation partners in this evocative staging of a poetic theology in which God is a coincidence of 'all names' and 'not nameable.' Divine Enticement elicits theology's seductive potential in seductively elegant prose." -- -Patricia Cox Miller Syracuse University "Once again, MacKendrick's contemplative writing draws us, calls us, into a bottomlessly alluring enigma. Much too enticing, this text, for theology or philosophy proper-and yet students at the liveliest reaches of either must irresistibly respond. For with its gentle brilliance, it plumbs the deep unknowing from which any knowledge worth thinking emanates." -- -Catherine Keller Drew University "In the Republic, Plato's Socrates calls for lovers of poetry to speak in prose about the benefits of poetic instruction and pleasure; this requires respect for tragedy, but not obsession with it. Karmen MacKendrick is one of those rare thinkers-too rare in a dispirited republic-who speaks the language that Socrates is calling for. In Divine Enticement, she does for theology what Anne Carson does for classics: she restores intrigue and eros to erudition." -- -Jim Wetzel Villanova University "The book takes up traditional theological topics such as prayer, sacraments, and Scripture, reading them in a way that explores not a 'fixed' meaning, but rather how these practices and texts allow God to call and shape people. . Recommended." -Choice "Beautifully written and elegantly theorized..." -- -Virginia Burrus Drew Theological Seminary
£59.40
Fordham University Press Divine Enticement Theological Seductions
Book SynopsisDivine Enticement argues for a reconception of theology and its subject matter as modes of seduction, of both body and mind. Theological language as evocation opens onto rereadings of faith, sacrament, ethics, prayer, and scripture. The conclusion argues for a sense of theology as calling upon infinite possibility.Trade Review"MacKendrick mines a Platonically-inflected Christian tradition to reimagine for today how to ask the question of God in an intertwining of memory, desire, and words that are both excessive and inadequate. Valentinus, Augustine, Nietzsche, and Chretien are among the stunning array of conversation partners in this evocative staging of a poetic theology in which God is a coincidence of 'all names' and 'not nameable.' Divine Enticement elicits theology's seductive potential in seductively elegant prose." -- -Patricia Cox Miller Syracuse University "Once again, MacKendrick's contemplative writing draws us, calls us, into a bottomlessly alluring enigma. Much too enticing, this text, for theology or philosophy proper-and yet students at the liveliest reaches of either must irresistibly respond. For with its gentle brilliance, it plumbs the deep unknowing from which any knowledge worth thinking emanates." -- -Catherine Keller Drew University "In the Republic, Plato's Socrates calls for lovers of poetry to speak in prose about the benefits of poetic instruction and pleasure; this requires respect for tragedy, but not obsession with it. Karmen MacKendrick is one of those rare thinkers-too rare in a dispirited republic-who speaks the language that Socrates is calling for. In Divine Enticement, she does for theology what Anne Carson does for classics: she restores intrigue and eros to erudition." -- -Jim Wetzel Villanova University "The book takes up traditional theological topics such as prayer, sacraments, and Scripture, reading them in a way that explores not a 'fixed' meaning, but rather how these practices and texts allow God to call and shape people. . Recommended." -Choice "Beautifully written and elegantly theorized..." -- -Virginia Burrus Drew Theological Seminary
£25.19
Fordham University Press Adoration The Deconstruction of Christianity II
Book SynopsisThis book uses a deconstructive method to bring together the history of Western Monotheism (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) and reflections on contemporary atheism. It develops Nancy’s concepts of sense, world, and exposure.Trade Review"Nancy pursues his explorations of Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity by treating the old and complex Christian 'legacy' in an original and stimulating manner, thereby demonstrating a remarkable mastery and erudition in the fields of Christion theology and of the philosophy of religion. But he also takes some important new steps in this trajectory, that will fascinate the reader." -- -Laurens ten Kate University for Humanistics, University of Utrecht
£62.10
Fordham University Press The Essential Writings
Book SynopsisJean-Luc Marion: The Essential Writings is the first anthology of this major contemporary philosopher's writings. It spans his entire career as a historian of philosophy, as a theologian, and as a theoretician of saturated phenomena. The editor's long general Introduction situates Marion in the history of modern philosophy, especially phenomenology, and shorter introductions preface each section of the anthology. The entire volume will enable professors to teach Marion by assigning a single book, and the editor's introductions will make it possible for students to learn enough about phenomenology to read Marion without having to take preliminary courses in Husserl and Heidegger.Trade Review"The Essential Marion will help a new generation of English-speaking readers to share the pleasure venerable French scholars, and less venerable Anglo-saxon scholars, have had for years. A superb, erudite and lucid introduction by Kevin Hart makes Marion even more readable while providing the audience with a general introduction to phenomenology. An astonishingly useful volume." -- -Jean-Yves Lacoste Australian Catholic University "The first major anthology of selections from many of Marion's most important writings, covering a wide range of his work in many different areas: history of philosophy (especially Descartes),phenomenology, theology, philosophy of religion. What makes the collection also particularly valuable are Kevin Hart's excellent introductions, both to Marion's work overall and to each particular area of his writings. Hart's introductions are introductions in the best sense of that term: They prepare the reader, awake interest, provide context, clarify difficulties, raise questions, and especially invite the reader into the texts themselves. This collection will be eminently useful for the classroom but will also prove a valuable introduction to Marion's work for the individual reader." -- -Christina M. Gschwandtner University of ScrantonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Kevin Hart I. Metaphysics and Its Idols Introduction The Marches of Metaphysics Double Idolatry II. Saturation, Gift, and Icon Introduction The Breakthrough and the Broadening Sketch of the Saturated Phenomenon The Banality of Saturation The Reason of the Gift The Icon or the Endless Hermeneutic III. Reading Descartes Introduction The Ambivalence of Cartesian Metaphysics The Eternal Truths The Question of the Divine Names Does the Ego Alter the Other? The Originary Otherness of the Ego IV. Revelation and Apophasis Introduction The Prototype and the Image Thomas Aquinas and Onto-Theology The Possible and Revelation What Cannot Be Said The Impossible for Man-God V. On Love and Sacrifice Introduction The Intentionality of Love Concerning the Lover, and His Advance The Creation of the Self Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice Notes Index
£40.50
Fordham University Press Theopoetic Folds Philosophizing Multifariousness
Book SynopsisThis book explores a “theopoetics” of multiplicity, how it contributes to scholarship on the edge of theology, philosophy, literature, and sociology, how it questions the establishment of the difference between philosophy and theology and resides in the dangerous realm of relativism, but might also heal the desperateness of orthodox persecution.Trade Review"Theopoetic Folds is a great contribution and indication that the most creative work in theology is taking place where process and postmodern ideas intersect." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central ArkansasTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Manifold of Theopoetics Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal POETICS Reality, Eternality, and Colors: Rimbaud, Whitehead, Stevens Michael Halewood (Theo)poetic Naming and the Advent of Truths: The Role of Poetics in the Philosophy of Alain Badiou Hollis Phelps Kierkegaardian Th eopoiesis: Selfhood, Anxiety, and the Multiplicity of Human Spirits Sam Laurent Theology as a Genre of the Blues Vincent Colapietro POLYPHONY Poiesis, Fides, et Ratio in the Absence of Relativism Matthew S. LoPresti The World as an Ultimate: Children as Windows to the World's Sacredness C. Robert Mesle The Gravity of Love: Theopoetics and Ontological Imagination Laurel C. Schneider SUB-VERSION Theopoetics as Radical Theology John D. Caputo Toward the Heraldic: A Theopoetic Response to Monorthodoxy L. Callid Keefe-Perry The Sublime, the Conflicted Self, and Attention to the Other: Toward a Theopoetics with Iris Murdoch and Julia Kristeva Paul S. Fiddes THE PLURI-VERSE Theopoetics and the Pluriverse: Notes on a Process Catherine Keller Consider the Lilies and the Peacocks: A Theopoetics of Life between the Folds Luke B. Higgins Becoming Intermezzo: Eco-Theopoetics after the Anthropic Principle Roland Faber AFTER-WORD Silence, Theopoetics, and Theologos: On the Word That Comes After John Thatamanil Notes List of Contributors Index
£66.60
Fordham University Press Messianic Thought Outside Theology
Book SynopsisThe use of messianism in 20th century literary and cultural theory. The essays critique the claim that religious paradigms simply underlie secular thought. In specific, they problematize the renewal of metaphysics by means of messianic temporality, by exposing pitfalls and paradoxes in the messianic idea.Trade Review"This book will change the transdisciplinary field of messianic thought in the most provocative and challenging ways imaginable." -- -Thomas Schestag Brown University "The individual essays in Messianic Thought wonderfully cohere into a true collection, in which a tradition of continental thought from Kant and Benjamin to Derrida and Agamben unfolds and gains new contours; one will want to read it as a whole and not just for the isolated piece." -- -Paul Fleming Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Saving Hope, The Wager of Messianism Anna Glazova and Paul North Part I: Critiques of Messianic Thought 1. Of Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics: Configuring the Messianic in Early Twentieth-Century Europe Lisa Anderson 2. On the Price of Messianism: The Intellectual Rift between Gershom Scholem and Jacob Taubes Thomas Macho 3. Impure Inheritances: Spectral Materiality in Derrida and Marx Nicole Pepperell 4. Agamben Messianic: The Slightest of Differences David Ferris 5. Messianic Language and the Idea of Prose. Benjamin and Agamben Vivian Liska Part II: Inverted Messianism 6. The Demand for an End: Kant and the Negative Conception of History Catharine Diehl 7. Migrations of the Bohemian Joshua Wilner 8. Paul Celan's Improper Names Anna Glazova 9. "When Christianity Is Finally Over": Images of a Messianic Politics in Heine and Benjamin Peter Fenves Part III: Negating the Messiah 10. The Crisis of the Messianic Claim: Scholem, Benjamin, Baudelaire Oleg Gelikmann 11. Messiahs and Principles Paul North 12. Messianic Not Werner Hamacher Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£71.10
Fordham University Press The Trace of God
Book SynopsisThe Trace of God treats Derrida's discussion and use of religious ideas. Examining his writings both early and late, it provides accounts of his engagement with the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, offering a variety of perspectives on the meaning of his work and its implications today.Trade Review"Edward Baring and Peter Gordon are to be commended for assembling such a high-quality collection." -- -Samir Haddad Fordham University "Edward Baring and Peter Gordon offer up to us an astonishingly fresh and vivid set of essays that not only cast new light on the work of the greatest philosophical provocateur of the late twentieth century but also provide food for reflecting today on the relations among violence, modernity, secularity, and religion." -- -Allan Megill University of Virginia "Jacques Derrida's most lasting legacy might well be his writings on religion, which not only restored the dialogue between religion and philosophy but also traced the entanglements of faith and knowledge, sacral and secular. If the perplexed seek a guide, they can do no better than this excellent volume. It explores Derrida's engagements with religion across the entire span of his career and the vast range of his interests. Bringing together established voices and younger scholars, these essays highlight the complexity and ambiguity of Derrida's thought and accentuate robust disagreements rather than harmonious consensus." -- -Warren Breckman University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction "Et Iterum de Deo": Jacques Derrida and the Tradition of Divine Names Hent de Vries N ot Yet Marrano: Levinas, Derrida, and the Ontology of Being Jewish Ethan Kleinberg Poetics of the Broken Tablet Sarah Hammerschlag Theism and Atheism at Play: Jacques Derrida and Christian Heideggerianism Edward Baring Called to Bear Witness: Derrida, Muslims, and Islam Anne Norton H abermas, Derrida, and the Question of Religion Peter E. Gordon A braham, the Settling Foreigner Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly Unprotected Religion: Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti-Religion John D. Caputo The Autoimmunity of Religion Martin Hagglund Derrida and Messianic Atheism Richard Kearney Notes List of Contributors Index
£63.00
ME - Fordham University Press The Trace of God
Book SynopsisThe Trace of God treats Derrida's discussion and use of religious ideas. Examining his writings both early and late, it provides accounts of his engagement with the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, offering a variety of perspectives on the meaning of his work and its implications today.Trade Review"Edward Baring and Peter Gordon are to be commended for assembling such a high-quality collection." -- -Samir Haddad Fordham University "Edward Baring and Peter Gordon offer up to us an astonishingly fresh and vivid set of essays that not only cast new light on the work of the greatest philosophical provocateur of the late twentieth century but also provide food for reflecting today on the relations among violence, modernity, secularity, and religion." -- -Allan Megill University of Virginia "Jacques Derrida's most lasting legacy might well be his writings on religion, which not only restored the dialogue between religion and philosophy but also traced the entanglements of faith and knowledge, sacral and secular. If the perplexed seek a guide, they can do no better than this excellent volume. It explores Derrida's engagements with religion across the entire span of his career and the vast range of his interests. Bringing together established voices and younger scholars, these essays highlight the complexity and ambiguity of Derrida's thought and accentuate robust disagreements rather than harmonious consensus." -- -Warren Breckman University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction "Et Iterum de Deo": Jacques Derrida and the Tradition of Divine Names Hent de Vries N ot Yet Marrano: Levinas, Derrida, and the Ontology of Being Jewish Ethan Kleinberg Poetics of the Broken Tablet Sarah Hammerschlag Theism and Atheism at Play: Jacques Derrida and Christian Heideggerianism Edward Baring Called to Bear Witness: Derrida, Muslims, and Islam Anne Norton H abermas, Derrida, and the Question of Religion Peter E. Gordon A braham, the Settling Foreigner Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly Unprotected Religion: Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti-Religion John D. Caputo The Autoimmunity of Religion Martin Hagglund Derrida and Messianic Atheism Richard Kearney Notes List of Contributors Index
£22.79
Fordham University Press Under the Gaze of the Bible
Book SynopsisHow does one most profitably read the Bible? The answer, according to Chrétien, must include allowing the Bible to read us. With the help of the great patristic writings as well as Protestant theologians and using his own poet’s sensibility, he creatively explores such scriptural doctrines as joy, hope, and witness/testimony.Trade Review"In Under the Gaze of the Bible, Chretien opens up the depth and warming brilliance of the Word by finding how to appropriately address oneself to the Bible as a listener and doer of the Word, such as he has learned from Origen, Augustine, Aquinas, Pascal, Kierkegaard Barth, von Balthsar, and others. He shows us how to engage the Divine Word, mind and heart, so as to understand and live Christian wisdom, joy, hope, and witness as have the great Christian masters. In the span of eight well-crafted chapters, Chretien takes the reader on a journey through some key texts and themes of the Bible and draws upon some of the great thinkers of the Christian tradition. I enthusiastically recommend this book for its illuminating reading of the Word, for the wisdom it proffers, and for its surprising and delightful understanding of just what 'reading the Word' can and must entail." -- -John P. Hittinger University of St. Thomas "Chretien's meditations, especially the more popular essays, such as those on joy and hope, can thus be read with profit by readers unschooled in or uninterested in academic philosophy." -- William J. Collinge -HorizonsTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1 Reading the Bible Today 2 Allowing Oneself to Be Read Authoritatively by the Holy Scripture 3 Kierkegaard and the Mirror of Scripture 4 Th e Wisdom Learned at the Foot of the Cross 5 Th e Docility of the Bishop as Doctor of the Faith According to Saint Augustine 6 Biblical Figures of Joy 7 On Christian Hope 8 Nine Propositions on the Christian Concept of Witness Notes Index
£45.00
Fordham University Press Thou Shalt Not Kill A Political and Theological
Book SynopsisThis book is comprised of two essays on the biblical commandment against homicide. The first is authored by a Roman Catholic cardinal; the second by a leading Italian feminist philosopher. Together the two essays explore the religious, philosophical, political, historical, and moral significance of “Thou Shalt Not Kill” today.Trade Review"Thou Shalt Not Kill represents an exceptionally original contribution to the study of contemporary Western culture seen from both a religious and a secular feminist perspective." -- -Alessia Ricciardi Northwestern University "The remarkable dialogue Scola and Cavarero between demonstrates the ethical, theological, and the political stakes of the prohibition of killing. Interpreting the prohibition of murder in the context of Levinas's ethics, Scola proposes what Cavarero calls an 'absolutist' interpretation of such prohibition and argues for its applicability both to suicide and to reproduction. By contrast, Cavarero brilliantly demonstrates the incoherence of such an interpretation, particularly in the context of new reproductive technologies, medical technologies, and modern warfare. Instead of ethical relationality, such an absolute application of the prohibition of killing, all too often coexisting with the justifications of just or preemptive war, leads to the valorization of impersonal biologism. This is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the contemporary debates about ethics, biopolitics, and bioethics." -- -Ewa Plonowska Ziarek author of Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of ModernismTable of ContentsTranslator's Note Part I: The Irrepressible Face of the Other Angelo Scola Point of Departure Commandments and Covenant Christianity and Rational, Universal Morals You Shall Not Kill Responsibilities and Challenges: Burning Issues Part II: The Archaeology of Homicide Adriana Cavarero A Special Law Brief Philological Note Crime and Punishment When Killing Is Lawful and Just To Cut Life Short A Weak Commandment In the Beginning Homo Necans You Shall Never Kill The Sex of Cain Notes Index
£55.80
Fordham University Press Common Goods
Book SynopsisIn the face of globalized ecological and economic crisis, what role does political theology play in formulating the shared good and the sharing of goods? This remarkable collection of essays by philosophers, theologians and religion scholars together rethinks the common, experimentally assembling a transdisciplinary political theology of the earth.Trade Review"This book marks a watershed moment that effectively redefines the parameters of political theology by expanding and pluralizing it, and it expresses the vibrancy of a pluralist spirituality by infusing it with a process and liberationist sensibility."-Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College "Faced with the neoliberal enclosure and privatization of nearly everything, this collection convokes an array of theists, pantheists, nontheists, and post-theists to theorize the multiplicity of both 'the common' and 'the good.' ... Common Goods provides us with readable, teachable, timely, plugged-in, politically compelling, and intellectually generous theological and para-theological work."-Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan UniversityTable of Contents1. Editors' Introduction Section One: Planetary Political Theology 2. William E. Connolly, "Process Philosophy and Planetary Politics" 3. John Thatamanil, "How Not to be a Religion: Genealogy, Identity, Wonder" 4. Clayton Crockett, "Non-Theology and Political Ecology: Post-Secularism, Repetition, and Insurrection" 5. Kathryn Tanner, "The Ambiguities of Transcendence" 6. Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, "Dreaming the Common Good/s: The Kin-dom of God as a Space of Utopian Politics" 7. Dhawn Martin, "A Cosmopolitical Theology: Engaging 'The Political' as an Incarnational Field of Emergence" Section Two: Economies and Ecologies of (Un)Common Good/s 8. Jeorg Rieger, "Reconfiguring the Common Good and Religion in the Context of Capitalism: Abrahamic Alternatives" 9. Gary Dorrien, "Christian Socialism and the Future of Economic Democracy" 10. Charon Hribar, "The Myth of the Middle: Common Sense, Good Sense, and Rethinking the 'Common Good' in Contemporary U.S. Society" 11. Nimi Wariboko, "Elements of Tradition, Protest, and New Creation in Monetary Systems: A Political Theology of Market Miracles" 12. Elijah Prewitt-Davis, "The Corporation and the Common Good: The Politics of Recognition After the Death of God" 13. An Yountae, "Breaking from Within: The Dialectic of Labor and the Death of God" 14. Anatoli Ignatov, "Thoreau Goes to Ghana: On the Wild and the Tingane" 15. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, "Climate Debt, White Privilege, and Christian Ethics as Political Theology" Section Three: Common Flesh, Common Democracies 16. Paulina Ochoa Espejo, "Between a Rock and an Empty Place: Political Theology and Democratic Legitimacy" 17. Vincent Lloyd, "From the Theopaternal to the Theopolitical: On Barack Obama" 18. Elias Ortega-Aponte, "Democratic Futures In the Shadow of Mass-Incarceration: Towards A Political Theology of Prison Abolition" 19. Sharon Betcher, Rupturing the Concorporeal Commons: On the Psychocultural Symptom of 'Disability' as Life Resentment 20. Karen Bray, "The Common Good of the Flesh: An indecent invitation to William Connolly, Joerg Rieger, and Political Theology" 21. A. Paige Rawson, "A (Socioeconomic) Hermeneutics of Chayim: The Theo-Ethical Implications of Reading with Wisdom" Index of Key Thinkers and Terms
£92.70
Fordham University Press Black Lives and Sacred Humanity Toward an
Book SynopsisFeatures a concept of sacred humanity embedded in African-American religious thought historically and available for a more scientifically and morally grounded African-American religiosity in the present and future. Also traces indications of this concept in select writings of Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin.Trade Review"Carol Wayne White's Black Lives and Sacred Humanity is a major contribution to American religious thought. She deftly constructs a rationale for African American sacred humanism that accomplishes (at least) three important tasks. First, she establishes the compatibility of her notion of sacred humanism with the best of current scientific thought regarding deep relationality in biology and cosmology. Second, she provides a solidly argued alternative to dogmatically theistic assumptions about African American religiosity. Third, White traces an intellectual history of sacred humanism in key American intellectual texts (Du Bois, Cooper, and Baldwin). With narrative grace, White has created a conversation among figures and fields in American religious thought that cannot help but open new avenues of philosophical and theological possibility." -- -Laurel Schneider Chicago Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: In Search of a New Religious Ideal 1. African American Religious Sensibilities and the Question of the Human 2. Sacred Humanity as Stubborn, Irreducible Materiality 3. Anna Julia Cooper: Relational Humanity and the Interplay of One and All 4. W. E. B. Du Bois: Humans as Centers of Value and Creativity 5. James Baldwin: Race, Religion, and the Love of Humanity Conclusion: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism Acknowledgments Notes Index
£73.80
Fordham University Press Black Lives and Sacred Humanity Toward an
Book SynopsisFeatures a concept of sacred humanity embedded in African-American religious thought historically and available for a more scientifically and morally grounded African-American religiosity in the present and future. Also traces indications of this concept in select writings of Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin.Trade Review"Carol Wayne White's Black Lives and Sacred Humanity is a major contribution to American religious thought. She deftly constructs a rationale for African American sacred humanism that accomplishes (at least) three important tasks. First, she establishes the compatibility of her notion of sacred humanism with the best of current scientific thought regarding deep relationality in biology and cosmology. Second, she provides a solidly argued alternative to dogmatically theistic assumptions about African American religiosity. Third, White traces an intellectual history of sacred humanism in key American intellectual texts (Du Bois, Cooper, and Baldwin). With narrative grace, White has created a conversation among figures and fields in American religious thought that cannot help but open new avenues of philosophical and theological possibility." -- -Laurel Schneider Chicago Theological SeminaryTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: In Search of a New Religious Ideal 1. African American Religious Sensibilities and the Question of the Human 2. Sacred Humanity as Stubborn, Irreducible Materiality 3. Anna Julia Cooper: Relational Humanity and the Interplay of One and All 4. W. E. B. Du Bois: Humans as Centers of Value and Creativity 5. James Baldwin: Race, Religion, and the Love of Humanity Conclusion: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism Acknowledgments Notes Index
£20.89
Fordham University Press Crossing the Rubicon The Borderlands of
Book SynopsisFalque presents a theological critique of French phenomenology, engaging Levinas, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Bonaventure, Scotus, Aquinas... He advances a Catholic hermeneutic of the body and the voice, a phenomenology of believing, and a metaphysical movement from human finitude and contingency to conversion and transformation via the overlay of the God-man.Trade Review"Crossing the Rubicon is Emmanuel Falque's Discourse on Method: a pungent and polemic treatise on why we become better philosophers when we also do theology. Should we 'cross the Rubicon' and so trouble the distinction between philosophy and theology? Of course, Falque tells us! We have everything to gain, including something of great interest: a hermeneutic of the body and the voice." -- -Kevin Hart University of VirginiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Matthew Farley Opening SC1. A Breakthrough SC2. A Crossing SC3. An Experience Part I: Interpreting 1. Is Hermeneutics Fundamental? SC4. The Hermeneutical Relief SC5. Confessional Hermeneutics SC6. Toward a phenomenality of the text 2. For a Hermeneutic of the Body and the Voice SC7. Aphonal Thought SC8. The voice is the phenomenon SC9. The voice that embodies Part II: Deciding 3. Always Believing SC10. A belief at the origin SC11. The prejudice of the absence of prejudices SC12. Faith and Non-Faith 4. Kerygma and Decision SC13. Philosophy of the Decision SC14 Theology of the Decision SC15 Deciding Together Part III: Crossing 5. "Tiling" and Conversion SC16 The Horizon of Finitude SC17. On "Tiling" or Overlaying SC18. Of Conversion or Transformation 6. Finally Theology SC19. From the Threshold to the Leap SC20. The Principle of Proportionality SC21 A Sigh of Relief Epilogue: And Then ...? SC22 First to Live SC23 The Afterwards of the Afterwards SC24 With an Exposed Face Notes Index
£81.90
Fordham University Press Crossing the Rubicon The Borderlands of
Book SynopsisFalque presents a theological critique of French phenomenology, engaging Levinas, Ricoeur, Merleau-Ponty, Bonaventure, Scotus, Aquinas... He advances a Catholic hermeneutic of the body and the voice, a phenomenology of believing, and a metaphysical movement from human finitude and contingency to conversion and transformation via the overlay of the God-man.Trade Review"Crossing the Rubicon is Emmanuel Falque's Discourse on Method: a pungent and polemic treatise on why we become better philosophers when we also do theology. Should we 'cross the Rubicon' and so trouble the distinction between philosophy and theology? Of course, Falque tells us! We have everything to gain, including something of great interest: a hermeneutic of the body and the voice." -- -Kevin Hart University of VirginiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction by Matthew Farley Opening SC1. A Breakthrough SC2. A Crossing SC3. An Experience Part I: Interpreting 1. Is Hermeneutics Fundamental? SC4. The Hermeneutical Relief SC5. Confessional Hermeneutics SC6. Toward a phenomenality of the text 2. For a Hermeneutic of the Body and the Voice SC7. Aphonal Thought SC8. The voice is the phenomenon SC9. The voice that embodies Part II: Deciding 3. Always Believing SC10. A belief at the origin SC11. The prejudice of the absence of prejudices SC12. Faith and Non-Faith 4. Kerygma and Decision SC13. Philosophy of the Decision SC14 Theology of the Decision SC15 Deciding Together Part III: Crossing 5. "Tiling" and Conversion SC16 The Horizon of Finitude SC17. On "Tiling" or Overlaying SC18. Of Conversion or Transformation 6. Finally Theology SC19. From the Threshold to the Leap SC20. The Principle of Proportionality SC21 A Sigh of Relief Epilogue: And Then ...? SC22 First to Live SC23 The Afterwards of the Afterwards SC24 With an Exposed Face Notes Index
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ME - Fordham University Press On Being and Cognition Ordinatio 1.3
Book SynopsisIn this book Scotus addresses fundamental issues concerning the limits of human knowledge and the nature of intellect and the object cooperate in generating actual cognition by developing his doctrine of the univocity of being, refuting skepticism and analyzing the way the knowledge in the case of abstractive cognition.Trade Review"The massive third distinction of the first book of Scotus's Ordinatio represents the fullest systematic treatment of cognitive psychology and philosophy of mind produced in the Middle Ages. This superb translation renders the whole text into clear, stylish, and felicitous English. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in medieval theories of mind and knowledge." -- -Richard Cross University of Notre DameTable of ContentsAbbreviations Outline of Ordinatio 1.3 Introduction Univocity of being and natural knowledge of God The first object of the intellect The adequate object of the intellect Knowledge and certainty Intellective memory and intelligible species The causes of intellection Trinity in man: trace and image Ordinatio 1.3 Part 1: On the possibility of having knowledge of God by natural means Question 1: Can God be known naturally by the intellect of the wayfarer? Question 2: Is God the first thing naturally known by us in our present state? Question 3: Is God the first natural and adequate object for the human intellect in its present state? Question 4: Can the intellect of the wayfarer know any certain and genuine truth by natural means without any special illumination by the uncreated light? Ordinatio 1.3 Part 2: On the trace of the Trinity Single Question: Is there in every creature a trace of the Trinity? Ordinatio 1.3 Part 3: On the Image of the Trinity Question 1: Does the intellective part of the soul contain memory as having an intelligible species naturally preceding the act of thinking? Question 2: Is the intellective part of the soul, taken properly, or a component of it, the total cause generating actual knowledge or the reason for generating it? Question 3: Is the object, as present in itself or in its species, or the intellective part of the soul the main cause of the production of knowledge? Question 4: Is there an image of the Trinity in our mind? Notes to the translation Further reading References
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Fordham University Press The Weight of Love
Book SynopsisA study of the role of affect in the mystical theology and Passion meditations of the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Bonaventure of BagnoregioTrade Review"The Weight of Love is an extremely erudite and well-researched book that illustrates the complexity of what scholars call 'affective' devotion in the high Middle Ages by means of detailed analyses of works of one of its most celebrated writers, the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Giovanni di Fidanza, otherwise known as St. Bonaventure. This innovative book responds to contemporary scholarship on mysticism, affective devotion, and medieval theology and natural philosophy." -- -Patricia Dailey Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Seraphic Doctrine: Love and Knowledge in the Dionysian Hierarchy. Chapter 2: Affect, Cognition, and the Natural Motion of the Will Chapter 3: Elemental Motion and the Force of UnionELEL.. Chapter 4: Hierarchy and Excess in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum Chapter 5: The Exemplary Bodies of the Legenda Maior Conclusion Bibliography
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Fordham University Press The Decolonial Abyss Mysticism and Cosmopolitics
Book SynopsisThis book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self’s reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of politicizing the mystical figure from the standpoint of coloniality.Trade Review"The Decolonial Abyss offers a decolonial political theology that carefully considers but seeks to avoid pitfalls often found in political theologies and philosophies that are based or propose views grounded on absolute negativity, perpetual deconstruction, or on apparent radical views that collapse into Eurocentric conservatisms. It is a required reading for anyone interested in political theology, liberation theologies, decolonial thinking, as well as Caribbean literature and philosophical thought." -- -Nelson Maldonado-Torres Rutgers University "The abyss provides a fascinating lens through which to politicize the mystical on the one hand and theologize the post- and decolonial on the other. Each of these is a worthy project on its own and even more compelling in relation to the other... A sophisticated, readable, and important book." -- -Mary-Jane Rubenstein Wesleyan UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Staring into the Abyss 1. Situating the Self in the Colonial Abyss 2. Tracing the Abyss: Via Negativa 3. The Restless Negative of Hegel: Otherness and the Way of Despair 4. The Groundlessness of Being: Fragmentation, Duration, and Re-collection 5. Reconstructing the Groundless Ground Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press The Decolonial Abyss Mysticism and Cosmopolitics
Book SynopsisThis book thematizes the mystical figure of the abyss by examining the abyss as the dialectical process of the self’s reconstruction followed by its dispossession. It traces such process in Neoplatonic mysticism, German idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy with the end of politicizing the mystical figure from the standpoint of coloniality.Trade Review"The Decolonial Abyss offers a decolonial political theology that carefully considers but seeks to avoid pitfalls often found in political theologies and philosophies that are based or propose views grounded on absolute negativity, perpetual deconstruction, or on apparent radical views that collapse into Eurocentric conservatisms. It is a required reading for anyone interested in political theology, liberation theologies, decolonial thinking, as well as Caribbean literature and philosophical thought." -- -Nelson Maldonado-Torres Rutgers University "The abyss provides a fascinating lens through which to politicize the mystical on the one hand and theologize the post- and decolonial on the other. Each of these is a worthy project on its own and even more compelling in relation to the other... A sophisticated, readable, and important book." -- -Mary-Jane Rubenstein Wesleyan UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Staring into the Abyss 1. Situating the Self in the Colonial Abyss 2. Tracing the Abyss: Via Negativa 3. The Restless Negative of Hegel: Otherness and the Way of Despair 4. The Groundlessness of Being: Fragmentation, Duration, and Re-collection 5. Reconstructing the Groundless Ground Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Fordham University Press Christianity Democracy and the Shadow of
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by Orthodoxy, Catholic, and Protestant scholars on Christianity's relationship to liberal democracy and the legacy of Emperor Constantine for Christian political thought.Trade Review"Many of us in the field of political theology are poorer for the lack of conversation most of us experience between Eastern and Western political theologies. Even if we are open and sympathetic to one another-and historically that is a big 'if'-the traditions are so distinct from one another that few can claim expertise in both, and so we continue to focus narrowly on our own traditions. This volume represents a welcome change to this pattern, opening a conversation between theologians across Eastern and Western traditions on the timely topics of church and state, democracy, and liberalism." -- -Elizabeth Phillips Tutor in Theology and Ethics, Westcott House, CambridgeTable of ContentsIntroduction: Outrunning Constantine's Shadow Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos The Post-Communist Situation Moral Argument in the Human Rights Debate of the Russian Orthodox Church Kristina Stoeckl Post-Communist Orthodox Countries and Secularization: The Lausti Case and the Fracture of Europe Pascal Hammerli Political Theologies: Protestant-Catholic-Orthodox Conversations Power to the People: Orthodoxy, Consociational Democracy, and the Move beyond Phyletism Luke Bretherton Power, Protest, and Perichoresis: On Being Church in a Troubled World Mary Doak Strange Fruit: Augustine, Liberalism, and the Good Samaritan Eric Gregory An Orthodox Encounter with Liberal Democracy Emmanuel Clapsis Democracy and the Dynamics of Death: Orthodox Reflections on the Origin, Purpose, and Limits of Politics Perry T. Hamalis "I Have Overcome the World": The Church, the Liberal State, and Christ's Two Natures in the Russian Politics of Theosis Nathaniel Wood Constantine's Shadow: Historical Perspectives Emperors and Bishops of Constantinople (324-431) Timothy D. Barnes Disowning Constantinian Christianity Peter Iver Kaufman "You Cannot have a Church without an Empire": Political Orthodoxy in Byzantium James Skedros Roman Catholicism and Democracy: The Post-conciliar Era Brian Hehir An Apophatic Approach How (Not) to be a Political Theologian Stanley Hauerwas List of Contributors Index
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Fordham University Press The Weight of Love Affect Ecstasy and Union in
Book SynopsisA study of the role of affect in the mystical theology and Passion meditations of the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Bonaventure of BagnoregioTrade Review"The Weight of Love is an extremely erudite and well-researched book that illustrates the complexity of what scholars call 'affective' devotion in the high Middle Ages by means of detailed analyses of works of one of its most celebrated writers, the thirteenth-century Franciscan theologian Giovanni di Fidanza, otherwise known as St. Bonaventure. This innovative book responds to contemporary scholarship on mysticism, affective devotion, and medieval theology and natural philosophy." -- -Patricia Dailey Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: The Seraphic Doctrine: Love and Knowledge in the Dionysian Hierarchy. Chapter 2: Affect, Cognition, and the Natural Motion of the Will Chapter 3: Elemental Motion and the Force of UnionELEL.. Chapter 4: Hierarchy and Excess in the Itinerarium mentis in Deum Chapter 5: The Exemplary Bodies of the Legenda Maior Conclusion Bibliography
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Fordham University Press Phenomenologies of Scripture
Book SynopsisA selection of essays by notable phenomenologists and biblical scholars on scriptural texts and interpretive methodology.Trade Review"Phenomenologies of Scripture draws the reader into the biblical text through close readings that often reveal sparkling new insights and open up depths previously unplumbed. One does not have to be a trained phenomenologist to benefit from these riches. Time spent with this volume will be amply repaid." -- -Bruce Ellis Benson Loyola Marymount UniversityTable of ContentsI. Introduction Biblical Criticism and the Phenomenology of Scripture Adam Y. Wells II. Reading Scripture Phenomenologically God's Word and Human Speech Robert Sokolowski Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice Jean-Luc Marion (translated by Stephen Lewis) To Exist Without Enemies Jean-Yves Lacoste (translated by Reuben Glick-Shank) The Manifestation of the Father: On Luke 15: 11-32 Kevin Hart Phenomenology as Lectio Divina: Jesus and the Woman Caught in Adultery Robyn Horner Split Interpretations of a Split I (Romans 7:7-25) Jean-Louis Chretien (translated by Reuben Glick-Shank) Love and Law According to Paul and Some Philosophers Jeffrey Bloechl The Affects of Unity: Ephesians 4:1-4 Emmanuel Housset (translated by Adam Wells) III. Responses Dwelling in the Thickness Walter Brueggemann Response Dale B. Martin Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
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Fordham University Press The Rigor of Things
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Jean-Luc Marion’s philosophical and theological work in the form of a conversation with the author. Marion reflects on major 20th century French figures and their varied influence on his work, while giving an overview of his writings in the history of philosophy, theology, and phenomenology.Trade Review"This beautiful dialogue, led by student-come-philosopher Dan Arbib, affords readers a new opportunity to acquaint themselves with a brilliant mind." -La CroixTable of ContentsForeword by David Tracy Preface Translator's Note 1. My Path 2. Descartes 3. Phenomenology 4. Theology 5. A Matter of Method 6. The World as It Runs-and as It Doesn't
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Fordham University Press The Rigor of Things
Book SynopsisAn introduction to Jean-Luc Marion’s philosophical and theological work in the form of a conversation with the author. Marion reflects on major 20th century French figures and their varied influence on his work, while giving an overview of his writings in the history of philosophy, theology, and phenomenology.Trade Review"This beautiful dialogue, led by student-come-philosopher Dan Arbib, affords readers a new opportunity to acquaint themselves with a brilliant mind." -La CroixTable of ContentsForeword by David Tracy Preface Translator's Note 1. My Path 2. Descartes 3. Phenomenology 4. Theology 5. A Matter of Method 6. The World as It Runs-and as It Doesn't
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Fordham University Press Derrida after the End of Writing
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.Trade Review"This book is not for you-if you think the specter of Derrida can be exorcised. Clayton Crockett has millennially updated and multi-discursively refreshed deconstruction itself. With transdisciplinary panache and a haunting intimacy, this leading philosopher of religion brings forth the political theologian and new materialist Derrida could only become postmortem." -- -Catherine Keller George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, and author of Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Derrida and the New Materialism Chapter One: Reading Derrida Reading Religion Chapter Two: Surviving Christianity Chapter Three: Political Theology Without Sovereignty Chapter Four: Interrupting Heidegger with a Ram: Derrida Reads Celan Chapter Five: Derrida, Lacan and OOO: Philosophy of Religion at the End of the World Chapter Six: Radical Theology and the Event: Caputo's Derridean Gospel Chapter Seven: Deconstructive Plasticity: Malabou's Biological Materialism Chapter Eight: Quantum Derrida: Barad's Hauntological Materialism Afterword: The Sins of the Fathers-A Love Letter
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Fordham University Press Derrida after the End of Writing Political
Book SynopsisThis book offers a new materialist interpretation of Derrida’s later work, including his engagements with religion and politics. It argues that there is a shift from a context or background motor scheme of writing to what Derrida calls the machinic, and Catherine Malabou calls plasticity.Trade Review"This book is not for you-if you think the specter of Derrida can be exorcised. Clayton Crockett has millennially updated and multi-discursively refreshed deconstruction itself. With transdisciplinary panache and a haunting intimacy, this leading philosopher of religion brings forth the political theologian and new materialist Derrida could only become postmortem." -- -Catherine Keller George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, and author of Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Derrida and the New Materialism Chapter One: Reading Derrida Reading Religion Chapter Two: Surviving Christianity Chapter Three: Political Theology Without Sovereignty Chapter Four: Interrupting Heidegger with a Ram: Derrida Reads Celan Chapter Five: Derrida, Lacan and OOO: Philosophy of Religion at the End of the World Chapter Six: Radical Theology and the Event: Caputo's Derridean Gospel Chapter Seven: Deconstructive Plasticity: Malabou's Biological Materialism Chapter Eight: Quantum Derrida: Barad's Hauntological Materialism Afterword: The Sins of the Fathers-A Love Letter
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Fordham University Press The Guide to Gethsemane
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsTranslator’s Note xiii Preface to the English-Language Edition xv Opening: The Isenheim Altarpiece or “The Taking on Board of Suffering” xvii Introduction: Shifting Understandings of Anxiety 1 PART I: THE FACE-TO-FACE OF FINITUDE 1 From the Burden of Death to Flight before Death 7 §1 The Burden of Death, 7 ■ §2 Fleeing from Death, 8 2 The Face of Death or Anxiety over Finitude 10 §3 Death “for Us” Humans, 10 ■ §4 Genesis and Its Symbolism, 11 ■ §5 The Mask of Perfection, 12 ■ §6 The Image of Finitude in Man, 13 ■ §7 Finitude: Finite and Infinite, 16 ■ §8 Finitude and Anxiety, 16 ■ §9 The Eclipse of Finitude, 17 ■ §10 The Face of Death, 18 ■ §11 To Die “with,” 19 3 The Temptation of Despair or Anxiety over Sin 22 §13 Inevitable Death, 22 ■ §14 The Conquest of Sin, 22 ■ §15 Sin and Anxiety, 23 ■ §16 The Temptation of Despair, 24 4 From the Affirmation of Meaninglessness to the Suspension of Meaning 26 §17 The Life Sentence, 26 ■ §18 The Christian Witness, 27 ■ §19 Meaninglessness and the Suspension of Meaning, 27 PART II: CHRIST FACED WITH ANXIETY OVER DEATH §20 Two Meditations on Death, 29 ■ §21 Alarm and Anxiety, 31 5 The Fear of Dying and Christ’s “Alarm” 33 §22 Taking on Fear and Abandonment, 33 ■ §23 The Cup, Sadness, and Sleep, 34 ■ §24 Resignation, Waiting, and Heroism, 35 ■ §25 The Silence at the End, 36 ■ §26 The Scenarios of Death, 37 ■ §27 The Triple Failure of the Staging, 38 ■ §28 From Alarm to Anxiety, 39 6 God’s Vigil 41 §29 Remaining Always Awake, 41 ■ §30 The Passage of Death, the Present of the Passion, the Future of the Resurrection, 42 ■ §31 Theological Actuality and Phenomenological Possibility, 43 7 The Narrow Road of Anxiety 45 §32 Indefiniteness, Reduction to Nothing, and Isolation, 45 ■ §33 The Strait Gate, 46 ■ §34 Anxiety over “Simply Death,” 47 ■ §35 Indefiniteness (Putting off the Cup) and the Powerless Power of God, 47 ■ §36 Reduction to Nothing and Kenosis, 52 ■ §37 The Isolation of Humankind and Communion with the Father, 54 ■ §38 Of Anxiety Endured on the Horizon of Death, 55 8 Death and Its Possibilities 57 §39 Manner of Living, Possibility of the Impossibility, and Death as “Mineness,” 57 ■ §40 Being Vigilant at Gethsemane, 59 ■ §41 From the Actuality of the Corpse to Possibilities for the Living, 60 ■ §42 The Death That Is Always His: Suffering in God; The Gift of His Life and Refusal of Mastery, 63 ■ §43 The Flesh Forgotten, 66 PART III: THE BODY-TO-BODY OF SUFFERING AND DEATH §44 Disappropriation and Incarnation, 69 ■ §45 Embedding in the Flesh and Burial in the Earth, 70 9 From Self-Relinquishment to the Entry into the Flesh 73 §46 Suffering the World, 73 ■ §47 Living in the World, 74 ■ §48 Otherness and Corruptibility, 74 ■ §49 Self-Relinquishment, 75 ■ §50 Passing to the Father, 76 ■ §51 Oneself as an Other, 77 ■ §52 Destitution and Auto-Affection, 78 ■ §53 Alterity and Fraternity, 79 ■ §54 Entry into the Flesh, 80 ■ §55 The Anxiety “in” the Flesh, 81 ■ §56 Toward Dumb Experience, 82 10 Suffering Occluded 84 §57 An Opportunity Thwarted, 84 ■ §58 Called into Question, 86 ■ §59 Toward a Phenomenology of Suffering, 86 11 Suffering Incarnate 88 §60 Perceiving, or the Challenge of the Toucher-Touching, 88 ■ §61 The Modes of the Incarnate Being, 91 ■ §62 The Excess of the Suffering Body, 94 12 The Revealing Sword 97 §63 Sobbing and Tears, 97 ■ §64 Fleshly Exodus, 99 ■ §65 The Vulnerable Flesh, 100 ■ §66 The Non-Substitutable Substitution, 101 ■ §67 The Act of Surrendering Oneself, 103 ■ §68 Toward a Revelation, 104 ■ §69 Useless Suffering, 104 Conclusion: The In-Fans [without-Speech] or the Silent Flesh 107 Epilogue: From One Triptych to Another 111 Notes 115 Index 157
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Fordham University Press Living with Tiny Aliens
Book SynopsisLiving with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being in Outer Space | 1 1 Exoplanets and Icy Moons and Mars, Oh My! | 15 2 Astrobiology’s Intra-Active Aliens | 32 3 Being a Living-System | 46 4 The imago Dei as a Refractive Symbol | 62 5 Conceptualizing Nature | 86 6 The Anthropocene as Planetarity in Deep Time | 104 7 An Artful Planet | 128 8 Living-Into Presence, Wonder, and Play | 146 Epilogue: Ad Astra Per Aspera | 188 Acknowledgments | 201 Notes | 203 Bibliography | 241 Index | 263
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Fordham University Press Living with Tiny Aliens The Image of God for the
Book SynopsisLiving with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Being in Outer Space | 1 1 Exoplanets and Icy Moons and Mars, Oh My! | 15 2 Astrobiology’s Intra-Active Aliens | 32 3 Being a Living-System | 46 4 The imago Dei as a Refractive Symbol | 62 5 Conceptualizing Nature | 86 6 The Anthropocene as Planetarity in Deep Time | 104 7 An Artful Planet | 128 8 Living-Into Presence, Wonder, and Play | 146 Epilogue: Ad Astra Per Aspera | 188 Acknowledgments | 201 Notes | 203 Bibliography | 241 Index | 263
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Fordham University Press In Search of Radical Theology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface | xi Introduction: What Is Radical Theology? | 1 1 Tradition and Event: Radicalizing the Catholic Principle | 29 2 Proclaiming the Year of the Jubilee: Thoughts on a Spectral Life | 45 3 Derrida and the Trace of Religion | 77 4 Augustine and Postmodernism | 94 5 On Not Settling for an Abridged Edition of Postmodernism: Radical Hermeneutics as Radical Theology | 109 6 Unprotected Religion: Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti-Religion | 125 7 Forget Rationality—Is There Religious Truth? | 151 8 Radical Theologians, Knights of Faith, and the Future of the Philosophy of Religion | 165 9 Theology in Trumptime: The Insistence of America | 185 10 Hoping against Hope: The Possibility of the Impossible | 189 Like a Devilish Knight of Faith: A Concluding Quasi-Theological Postscript | 203 Acknowledgments | 207 Notes | 209 Index | 241
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Fordham University Press In Search of Radical Theology Expositions
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface | xi Introduction: What Is Radical Theology? | 1 1 Tradition and Event: Radicalizing the Catholic Principle | 29 2 Proclaiming the Year of the Jubilee: Thoughts on a Spectral Life | 45 3 Derrida and the Trace of Religion | 77 4 Augustine and Postmodernism | 94 5 On Not Settling for an Abridged Edition of Postmodernism: Radical Hermeneutics as Radical Theology | 109 6 Unprotected Religion: Radical Theology, Radical Atheism, and the Return of Anti-Religion | 125 7 Forget Rationality—Is There Religious Truth? | 151 8 Radical Theologians, Knights of Faith, and the Future of the Philosophy of Religion | 165 9 Theology in Trumptime: The Insistence of America | 185 10 Hoping against Hope: The Possibility of the Impossible | 189 Like a Devilish Knight of Faith: A Concluding Quasi-Theological Postscript | 203 Acknowledgments | 207 Notes | 209 Index | 241
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Fordham University Press Nothing Absolute German Idealism and the
Book SynopsisAgainst traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Immanence, Genealogy, Delegitimation | 1 Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet 1 Knot of the World: German Idealism between Annihilation and Construction | 35 Kirill Chepurin 2 Utopia and Political Theology in the “Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism” | 54 S. D. Chrostowska 3 Relational Division | 73 Daniel Colucciello Barber 4 Otherwise Than Terror: Ten Theses on the Modernist Secular | 87 Daniel Whistler 5 Kant’s Unexpected Materialism: How the Object Saves Kant (and Us) from the Moral Law | 104 James Martel 6 Earth Unbounded: Division and Inseparability in Hölderlin and Günderrode | 124 Joseph Albernaz 7 Kant with Sade with Hegel: The Death of God and the Joy of Reason | 144 Oxana Timofeeva 8 A Political Theology of Tolerance: Universalism and the Tragic Position of the Religious Minority | 160 Thomas Lynch 9 Hegel, Blackness, Sovereignty | 174 Vincent Lloyd 10 Political Theology of the Death of God: Hegel and Derrida | 188 Agata Bielik-Robson 11 Exception without Sovereignty: The Kenotic Eschatology of Schelling | 207 Saitya Brata Das 12 Once More, from Below: The Concept of Reduplication and the Immanence of Political Theology | 223 Steven Shakespeare 13 On the General Secular Contradiction: Secularization, Christianity, and Political Theology | 240 Alex Dubilet List of Contributors | 257 Index | 261
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Fordham University Press Nothing Absolute
Book SynopsisAgainst traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Immanence, Genealogy, Delegitimation | 1 Kirill Chepurin and Alex Dubilet 1 Knot of the World: German Idealism between Annihilation and Construction | 35 Kirill Chepurin 2 Utopia and Political Theology in the “Oldest Systematic Program of German Idealism” | 54 S. D. Chrostowska 3 Relational Division | 73 Daniel Colucciello Barber 4 Otherwise Than Terror: Ten Theses on the Modernist Secular | 87 Daniel Whistler 5 Kant’s Unexpected Materialism: How the Object Saves Kant (and Us) from the Moral Law | 104 James Martel 6 Earth Unbounded: Division and Inseparability in Hölderlin and Günderrode | 124 Joseph Albernaz 7 Kant with Sade with Hegel: The Death of God and the Joy of Reason | 144 Oxana Timofeeva 8 A Political Theology of Tolerance: Universalism and the Tragic Position of the Religious Minority | 160 Thomas Lynch 9 Hegel, Blackness, Sovereignty | 174 Vincent Lloyd 10 Political Theology of the Death of God: Hegel and Derrida | 188 Agata Bielik-Robson 11 Exception without Sovereignty: The Kenotic Eschatology of Schelling | 207 Saitya Brata Das 12 Once More, from Below: The Concept of Reduplication and the Immanence of Political Theology | 223 Steven Shakespeare 13 On the General Secular Contradiction: Secularization, Christianity, and Political Theology | 240 Alex Dubilet List of Contributors | 257 Index | 261
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Fordham University Press Deconstruction in a Nutshell A Conversation with
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgements | xi Abbreviations | xiii Introduction (2020): Specters of Derrida by John D. Caputo | xix Part One The Villanova Roundtable: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida Part Two A Commentary: Deconstruction in a Nutshell 1. Deconstruction in a Nutshell: The Very Idea (!) | 31 The Aporetics of the Nutshell | 31 The Axiomatics of Indignation (The Very Idea!) | 36 Apologia: An Excuse for Violence | 44 Nutshells, Six of Them | 47 2. The Right to Philosophy | 49 Of Rights, Responsibilities, and a New Enlightenment | 49 Institutional Initiatives | 60 Between the "Department of Philosophy" and a Philosophy to Come | 69 3. Khora: Being Serious with Plato | 71 A Hoax | 71 Deconstruction is Serious Business | 74 An Exorbitant Method | 77 Khora | 82 Two Tropics of Negativity | 92 Differance: Khora is Its Surname | 96 4. Community Without Community | 106 Hospitality | 109 Identity Without Identity | 113 An Open Quasi-Community | 121 5. Justice, If Such a Thing Exists | 125 Doing Justice to Derrida | 125 Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice | 129 The Gift | 140 Dike: Derrida, Heidegger, and Dis-junctive Justice | 151 6. The Messianic: Waiting for the Future | 156 The Messianic Twist in Deconstruction | 156 Faith Without Religion | 164 The Messianic and the Messianisms: | 168 -Which Comes First? | 168 -When Will You Come? | 178 7. Re-Joyce, Say "Yes" | 181 Between Husserl and Joyce | 182 The Gramophone Effect | 184 Joyce's Signature | 189 Inaugurations: Encore | 198 A Concluding Amen | 201 Bibliography | 203 Index of Names | 209 Index of Subjects | 213
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Fordham University Press Anarchy and the Kingdom of God
Book SynopsisAnarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of anarchism both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power, coercion, and oppression, Davor Džalto advances human freedomone of the most prominent forces in human historyas a foundational theological principle in Christianity. That principle enables a fresh reexamination of the problems of democracy and justice in the age of global (neoliberal) capitalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Anarchism and (Orthodox) Christianity: An (Un)Natural Alliance? | 7 Part I: (Un)Orthodox Political Theologies: Histories The Symphonia Doctrine: Introduction | 27 Early Christianity: Who’s Conducting “Symphonia”? | 35 Divus Constantinus and Court Theology in the Eastern Empire | 43 Conducting “Symphonia” in Russian Lands | 67 The Modern Nation, Ethnicity, and State-Based Political Theologies | 88 Newer Approaches | 101 Political Theology as Ideology: A Deconstruction | 112 Part II: Anarchy and the Kingdom of God: Prophecies Alternative and “Proto-Anarchist” Political Theologies | 123 Being as Freedom and Necessity | 157 Something Is Rotten in This Reality of Ours | 169 Eschatology and Liturgy | 180 “This World” and the Individualized Mode of Existence | 184 The Politics of Nothingness | 190 Theology as a Critical Discourse? | 204 The End and the Beginning | 247 Acknowledgments | 253 Notes | 255 Bibliography | 293 Index | 309
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Fordham University Press Anarchy and the Kingdom of God
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction | 1 Anarchism and (Orthodox) Christianity: An (Un)Natural Alliance? | 7 Part I: (Un)Orthodox Political Theologies: Histories The Symphonia Doctrine: Introduction | 27 Early Christianity: Who’s Conducting “Symphonia”? | 35 Divus Constantinus and Court Theology in the Eastern Empire | 43 Conducting “Symphonia” in Russian Lands | 67 The Modern Nation, Ethnicity, and State-Based Political Theologies | 88 Newer Approaches | 101 Political Theology as Ideology: A Deconstruction | 112 Part II: Anarchy and the Kingdom of God: Prophecies Alternative and “Proto-Anarchist” Political Theologies | 123 Being as Freedom and Necessity | 157 Something Is Rotten in This Reality of Ours | 169 Eschatology and Liturgy | 180 “This World” and the Individualized Mode of Existence | 184 The Politics of Nothingness | 190 Theology as a Critical Discourse? | 204 The End and the Beginning | 247 Acknowledgments | 253 Notes | 255 Bibliography | 293 Index | 309
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Fordham University Press What Is Theology
Book SynopsisAdam Kotsko makes the case for the continued relevance of Christian theology for contemporary intellectual life, demonstrating its vibrancy as a creative and constructive pursuit outside the church, rethinking its often rivalrous relationship with philosophy, and tracing the theological roots of modern models of governance and racial oppression.Table of ContentsPreface | xi Introduction: What Is Theology? | 1 PART I : THEOLOGY BEYOND THE LIMITS OF RELIGION ALONE Bonhoeffer on Continuity and Crisis: From Objective Spirit to Religionless Christianity | 27 Resurrection without Religion | 39 Toward a Materialist Theology: Slavoj Žižek on Thinking God beyond the Master Signifier | 50 PART II : THEOLOGY UNDER PHILOSOPHICAL CRITIQUE The Failed Divine Performative: Reading Judith Butler’s Critique of Theology with Anselm’s On the Fall of the Devil | 63 Translation, Hospitality, and Supersession: Lamin Sannehand Jacques Derrida on the Future of Christianity | 79 Agamben the Theologian | 94 PART III : THEOLOGY AND THE GENEALOGY OF THE MODERN WORLD The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Legitimacy | 109 Modernity’s Original Sin: Toward a Theological Genealogy of Race | 122 The Trinitarian Century: God, Governance, and Race | 143 Acknowledgments | 165 Notes | 167 Bibliography | 183 Index | 191
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Fordham University Press A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology
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Fordham University Press Gestures The Study of Religion as Practice
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations | xiii List of Credits | xv Preface | xvii Introduction: Practice Turns in the Study of Religion MICHIEL LEEZENBERG | 1 I . RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY 1. Gesturing Toward Sacrifice: Aping the Scapegoat and Monkeying Around with the Lamb YVONNE SHERWOOD | 47 2. Unpacking “Performance”: Felicity Conditions, Efficacy, and Indexicals in Islamic Actions JOHN R. BOWEN | 106 3. “Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame”: How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate BRUNO LATOUR | 119 4. Dorsal Monuments: Messiaen, Sellars, and Saint Francis SANDER VAN MAAS | 141 II . EMBODIMENT AND MATERIALI TY 5. From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India WENDY DONIGER | 173 6. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street JUDITH BUTLER | 194 7. Divine Impersonations: Transgressive Gestures in Hindu Devotion ROKUS DE GROOT | 215 8. Islamic Dress and Fashion: A Religious and a Sartorial Practice Revisited ANNELIES MOORS | 235 9. On Spirit Writing: Materialities of Language and the Religious Work of Transduction WEBB KEANE | 249 III . EVERYDAY RELIGION 10. The Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly Trajectories THOMAS A. TWEED | 279 11. Rhythms of Roots: Identity Politics in Religious Dance Processions in Bolivia SANNE DERKS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, AND WILLY JANSEN | 303 12. State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr UMUT AZAK | 322 13. Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam SAMULI SCHIELKE | 348 IV. TRANSGRESSIVE ACTS: HERESY AND BLASPHEMY 14. Eventual Blasphemies: Setting the Offensive Work of Art in Time S. BRENT PLATE | 375 15. The Political Gesture of “Blasphemous” Art: Facing Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer ANNE-MARIE KORTE | 391 16. On Silencing and Public Debates about Religiously Offensive Acts CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER | 417 17. Offending Muslims: Provocation, Blasphemy, and Public Debate in the Netherlands MARTIJN DE KONING | 445 V. VIOLENT RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES: SACRIFICE AND MARTYRDOM 18. Sacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Meditations from Sakalava Mythopraxis MICHAEL LAMBEK | 475 19. The Mass and the Theater: Othello and Sacrifice REGINA M. SCHWARTZ | 502 20. Martyrdom, Religion, and Nation in Kurdish Literature MARIWAN KANIE | 524 21. Suicide Terrorism and the Modern Nation-State: Antiliberal Protest or Biopolitical Performance? MICHIEL LEEZENBERG | 546 VI . SECULARISM AND POSTSECULARISM 22. Good Religion, Bad Religion: Beyond the Secularity-Religion and Secularity-Piety Binaries YOLANDE JANSEN | 579 23. Human Rights, Muslim Communities, and the Unintentional Secularization of Canada ALI HASSAN ZAIDI | 605 24. The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism RAJEEV BHARGAVA | 623 List of Contributors | 651 Index | 657
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Fordham University Press Gestures
Book SynopsisThis concluding volume of the Future of the Religious Past series approaches contemporary religion through the lens of practice: the rituals, performances, devotions, and everyday acts through which humans do religion. In spite of predictions about the inevitability of secularism, religion in the twenty-first century remains stubbornly resilient, and Gestures: The Study of Religion as Practice offers a new vantage point from which to see the religious as a category shaped and reshaped by modernity and to encounter religion not as something bounded by doctrines and sacred texts but as lived experience. Twenty-four globally based scholars look to practice to examine such diverse phenomena as human rights, memory, martyrdom, dress and fashion, colonial legacies, blasphemy, mass political action, and the future of secularism.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations | xiii List of Credits | xv Preface | xvii Introduction: Practice Turns in the Study of Religion MICHIEL LEEZENBERG | 1 I . RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY 1. Gesturing Toward Sacrifice: Aping the Scapegoat and Monkeying Around with the Lamb YVONNE SHERWOOD | 47 2. Unpacking “Performance”: Felicity Conditions, Efficacy, and Indexicals in Islamic Actions JOHN R. BOWEN | 106 3. “Thou Shalt Not Freeze-Frame”: How Not to Misunderstand the Science and Religion Debate BRUNO LATOUR | 119 4. Dorsal Monuments: Messiaen, Sellars, and Saint Francis SANDER VAN MAAS | 141 II . EMBODIMENT AND MATERIALI TY 5. From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India WENDY DONIGER | 173 6. Bodies in Alliance and the Politics of the Street JUDITH BUTLER | 194 7. Divine Impersonations: Transgressive Gestures in Hindu Devotion ROKUS DE GROOT | 215 8. Islamic Dress and Fashion: A Religious and a Sartorial Practice Revisited ANNELIES MOORS | 235 9. On Spirit Writing: Materialities of Language and the Religious Work of Transduction WEBB KEANE | 249 III . EVERYDAY RELIGION 10. The Quotidian Turn: Interpretive Categories and Scholarly Trajectories THOMAS A. TWEED | 279 11. Rhythms of Roots: Identity Politics in Religious Dance Processions in Bolivia SANNE DERKS, CATRIEN NOTERMANS, AND WILLY JANSEN | 303 12. State Rituals in Turkey: Commemorating the Gazi and Kubilay the Martyr UMUT AZAK | 322 13. Second Thoughts About the Anthropology of Islam SAMULI SCHIELKE | 348 IV. TRANSGRESSIVE ACTS: HERESY AND BLASPHEMY 14. Eventual Blasphemies: Setting the Offensive Work of Art in Time S. BRENT PLATE | 375 15. The Political Gesture of “Blasphemous” Art: Facing Pussy Riot’s Punk Prayer ANNE-MARIE KORTE | 391 16. On Silencing and Public Debates about Religiously Offensive Acts CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTNER | 417 17. Offending Muslims: Provocation, Blasphemy, and Public Debate in the Netherlands MARTIJN DE KONING | 445 V. VIOLENT RELIGIOUS PERFORMANCES: SACRIFICE AND MARTYRDOM 18. Sacrifice and the Problem of Beginning: Meditations from Sakalava Mythopraxis MICHAEL LAMBEK | 475 19. The Mass and the Theater: Othello and Sacrifice REGINA M. SCHWARTZ | 502 20. Martyrdom, Religion, and Nation in Kurdish Literature MARIWAN KANIE | 524 21. Suicide Terrorism and the Modern Nation-State: Antiliberal Protest or Biopolitical Performance? MICHIEL LEEZENBERG | 546 VI . SECULARISM AND POSTSECULARISM 22. Good Religion, Bad Religion: Beyond the Secularity-Religion and Secularity-Piety Binaries YOLANDE JANSEN | 579 23. Human Rights, Muslim Communities, and the Unintentional Secularization of Canada ALI HASSAN ZAIDI | 605 24. The Distinctiveness of Indian Secularism RAJEEV BHARGAVA | 623 List of Contributors | 651 Index | 657
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University of Missouri Press History of Political Ideas CW19
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University of Missouri Press Transcendence and History
Book SynopsisProvides an analysis of what philosopher Eric Voegelin described as ‘the decisive problem of philosophy’: the dilemma of the discovery of transcendent meaning and the impact of this discovery on human self-understanding.
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