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.
Divided into three parts, this work introduces students to the study of 'Religion and Politics': its key concepts, most important texts and major issues of current debate. A range of classical texts are offered, with introductions and further reading, showing their genealogical association
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