The transcendence of desire: a theology of political agency
"The secular age is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest. Charles Taylors immanent frame cannot be construed merely as a phenomenon within religion and culture but urgently needs to be understood in political...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland
Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | New approaches to religion and power
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Secularism
/ Religion
/ Politics
/ Competent to act
/ Political theology
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy FD Contextual theology ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Transcendance de Dieu
B Théologie politique B Political Theology B Transcendence of God |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | "The secular age is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest. Charles Taylors immanent frame cannot be construed merely as a phenomenon within religion and culture but urgently needs to be understood in political and economic termsi.e., as a class project. The failure of the secular, vividly displayed in the crumbling legitimacy of global institutions and in the spectacle of police violence, both calls for and makes possible a renewal of political agency. Tom James and David True argue that a theology of the cross has a distinctive potential today: it can pierce the sacred aura of normalcy around the consensual anti-politics of the neoliberal order so that a vision of a world beyond todays racialized capitalism can emerge. But they contend that we dont need to forsake the emancipatory aims of modernity nor retreat to local communities. As an alternative to these weak strategies, they offer a constructive and cruciform account of political agency that includes both prophetic resistance and practical wisdom, each embedded in contemporary struggles for freedom that, they argue, embody divine desire for a common world. " -- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 252 Seiten, 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 3-031-46226-2 978-3-031-46226-9 |
