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Religion before and after secularism -- True religion and temporal gods -- True religion and consumption -- True religion as special effect.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The governing question I: from what place does theology speak?; CHAPTER 2 The governing question II: how do cultures change?; CHAPTER 3 The governing question III: what is the relationship between religious practices and cultural transformation?; Bibliography; Index

Ward talks about secularism, which is a state-sponsored mythology that has evolved to replace the monarchic mythology of cuius regius eius religio. Laicite itself -- a complex and evolving idea that came to be understood in terms of state-monitored secularism -- goes back to laws preceding, including, and succeeding the Separation of Churches and State Act 1905. The fight here was State control of Roman Catholicism following years of conflict between republican anti-clericalism and Catholic anti-republicans. The 1905 law become the legal basis for laicite, but it has to be understood in terms of what it did not do. Adapted from the source document.

Vom religiösen Fundamentalismus bis zum Konsum religiöser Spezialeffekte im Holy Land-Abenteuerpark in Florida: Religion steht einmal mehr auf der Liste der wichtigsten Themen der Gegenwart. Doch wie verhält sich die gegenwärtige Wiederkehr des Religiösen zur Wahrheit der Religion? Ward skizziert die Genealogie der Suche nach der "wahren" Religion in der westlichen Welt. Er macht auf die Wandlungen dieser Suche im Wechselspiel mit den Entwicklungen des modernen Säkularismus, Liberalismus und Kapitalismus aufmerksam. Für die Gegenwart kommt er zu dem überraschenden Fazit: Zurück zur Theologie!

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- General Introduction -- PART ONE: THE DIVISION OF CHRIST'S POLITICAL BODY -- Prologue to Part One -- Chapter 1 Augustine (354-430) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from City of God -- Chapter 2 Thomas Aquinas (1225/7-74) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from De regimine (De regno) -- Chapter 3 Alighieri Dante (1265-1321) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from De monarchia -- Chapter 4 Martin Luther (1483-1546) -- Introduction -- Excerpts from 'Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation', and 'On the Limits of Secular Authority' -- PART TWO: THE LEGITIMATION OF SOVEREIGN POWER -- Prologue to Part Two -- Chapter 5 Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from Discourses on Livy -- Chapter 6 King James VI/I (1566-1625) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from The True Law of Free Monarchies -- Chapter 7 Thomas Hobbes (1588-1674) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from Leviathan -- PART THREE: RELIGION IN DEMOCRATIC CULTURE -- Prologue to Part Three -- Chapter 8 Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from Social Contract -- Chapter 9 Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from Common Sense -- Chapter 10 Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from Democracy in America -- Chapter 11 Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from Considerations on France -- PART FOUR: POLITICS AFTER RELIGION -- Prologue to Part Four -- Chapter 12 Karl Marx (1818-83) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from the Introduction to the Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of Right' -- Chapter 13 Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) -- Introduction -- Excerpt from Political Theology -- Chapter 14 Vladimir I. Lenin (1870-1924) and Simone Weil (1909-43) -- Introduction -- 'Socialism and Religion' by Lenin -- Excerpt from The Need for Roots by Weil -- PART FIVE: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATES.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- part 1 Revolution and Theological Difference -- Tragedy and Revolution -- Metanoia: The Theological Praxis of Revolution -- The ''Thrilling Romance of Orthodoxy'' -- Nothing Is, Something Must Be: Lacan and Creation from No One -- Revelation and Revolution -- part 2 Ontology, Capital, and Kingdom -- Capital and Kingdom: An Eschatological Ontology -- Neither Servility nor Sovereignty: Between Metaphysics and Politics -- Of Chrematology: Joyce and Money -- Only Jesus Saves: Toward a Theopolitical Ontology of Judgment -- part 3 Infinite Desire and the Political Subject -- The Political Subject and Absolute Immanence -- Rewriting the Ontological Script of Liberation: On the Question of Finding a New Kind of Political Subject -- Ecclesia: The Art of the Virtual -- The Univocalist Mode of Production -- part 4 Reenchanting the Political beyond Ontotheology -- The Commodification of Religion, or The Consummation of Capitalism -- The UnbearableWithness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind Spot of Anti-ontotheology -- ''To Cut Too Deeply and Not Enough'': Violence and the Incorporeal -- The Two Sources of the ''Theological Machine'': Jacques Derrida and Henri Bergson on Religion, Technicity, War, and Terror -- part 5 Theological Materialism -- Materialism and Transcendence -- Truth and Peace: Theology and the Body Politic in Augustine and Hobbes -- The Politics of the Eye: Toward a Theological Materialism -- Notes on Contributors -- Index