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AbstractBoth inside and outside the academy, identifications of Islam as a terrorist threat have gained traction during the on-going War on Terror. William Cavanaugh's conceptualization and critique of what he calls "the myth of religious violence" claims to offer a critique of these identifications. This critique has been influential across a variety of disciplines. In this article, I assess both his more philosophical-critical and his more theological-constructive accounts of religion to argue that Cavanaugh's myth is, essentially, apologetics. Cavanaugh's apologetics for the church camouflages the differential treatment of religions during the War on Terror. If it has been about a myth at all, then the War on Terror has been about the myth of Muslim violence. Christianity past and present has condoned and contributed to this very myth. What is needed, then, is a conception and a critique of "religion" that, in contrast to Cavanaugh's analysis, can account for the significance of Christianity for the differential treatment of religions in the public square, both descriptively and prescriptively.

AbstractStudies on 9/11 could fill a library. In this short introduction, the editor explains the reason for overcoming the hesitation to add more studies to this library by contextualizing and charting the key concerns and the key concepts of the following contributions. These contributions suggest that 9/11 is not necessarily the watershed between a pre- and a post-9/11 order that politicians and pundits continue to write about. Instead, the attacks have served as a catalyst for trends and trajectories in the global governance of religion that continue to have a significant impact today. Returning to 9/11, then, the contributions take stock of these trends and trajectories in order to chart new ways of engaging with religion in the public square.

Spätestens seit den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 steht Religion unter Generalverdacht. In der vorliegenden Studie untersucht Ulrich Schmiedel, wie in der englischsprachigen politischen Theologie auf die Terroranschläge reagiert wurde. Die auf den deutschen Staatsrechtler Carl Schmitt zurückgehende Freund-Feind-Unterscheidung erweist sich dabei als Kernkonzept in der Kontroverse um liberale und postliberale Religionstheorien, die Verfechter und Verächter des globalen Krieges gegen den Terror ausfochten. Unter Bezug auf Dorothee Sölles politische Theologie verwickelt Schmiedel beide in ein Gespräch mit muslimischen Rechts- und Religionsgelehrten. Daraus entwickelt er die Konturen einer koalitionären und komparativen politischen Theologie für pluralistische Gegenwartsgesellschaften.

Introduction : political theology in the spirit of populism : methods and metaphors / Ulrich Schmiedel -- Anger : a secularized theological concept / Vincent Lloyd -- "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you" : populism, political theology, and the culturally repugnant other / Thomas Lynch -- The politics of belonging in the nation state : reclaiming Christianity from populism / Mariëtta van der Tol -- America transcendent / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd -- Sacred scripts of populism : scripture-practices in the European far right / Hannah Strømmen -- Hermeneutics, politics, and liberalism in Islamic modernity : beyond populism / Fatima Tofighi -- "If I forget thee, o Jerusalem" : Zionism and the politics of collective memory / Brian Klugvi Contents -- Populism, Christianity, and the role of the theologian / Mattias Martinson -- From incarnation to identity : the theological background of national-populist politics in the western Balkans / Zoran Grozdanov -- Querying populism by queering Chantal Mouffe : understanding hetero-patriarchal populism / Ludger Viefhues-Bailey -- The persistence of white Christian patriarchy in a time of right-wing populism / Esther McIntosh -- The God of the Brexiteers / Lukas Meyer -- Discipling populism : a theopolitical alternative to denial or demonizing / Doug Gay -- A political theology of 'the people' : enlisting classical concepts for contemporary critique / Jonathan Chaplin -- Can Jewish ethics speak to sovereignty? / Julie E. Cooper -- Confessing Christ in 'Christian Europe' : the death of the church as a theological response to populism / Joseph Sverker -- The other in the ecclesial self : the church and the populist challenge / Sturla J. Stålsett -- The orthodox 'unorthodox' : from populism to pluralism / Ryszard Bobrowicz and Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg -- Conclusion : an invitation to comparative political theology / Joshua Ralston.

A pioneering study of how global migration challenges Christians to reinterpret the Old and New Testaments and church history by highlighting the impact of migration on the formation of the Bible and church historiography. It moves on to reformulate basic Christian beliefs (systematic theology), ethics, and practical theology.