Religious Regimes and State Formation

Religious Regimes and State FormationThis book intends to systematically overcome the received practice of treating religion and politics as wholly separate and independent domains. It studies power and meaning in their "antagonistic interdependencies" rather than approaching religion purely as a realm of meaning without reference to issues of power, or dealing with politics as the province of power without raising questions of meaning. Religion and politics are thus seen in relation to

It also recognizes the challenge women's autobiography offers to theory

cognitive resonances that spring up between teachers and students in the classroom

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Simon Gilson and Jill Kraye

and Pierce Brosnan’s techno-fetishism

A particular conception of the nature of religious faith is compared and contrasted with some influential types of secular faith

Winnie Tomm (Goddess Consciousness and Social Realities: The 'Permeable Self')

and seeks to defend political philosophy and social science against the rival claims of literature and literary criticism as sources of political insight and construction

survivor-activists

European and American thinkers like Michel Foucault and Judith Butler have called attention to the way that people live out ritual scripts in order to be recognized by other people such that they might survive

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