Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Welchman, Alistair (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, 8
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.; Religious Studies, general.

The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of thinkers—Agamben, Badiou, Tabues and in pa...