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Author : Julie E. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Secular Powers written by Julie E. Cooper and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Philosophy categories.
Secularism is usually thought to contain the project of self-deification, in which humans attack God’s authority in order to take his place, freed from all constraints. Julie E. Cooper overturns this conception through an incisive analysis of the early modern justifications for secular politics. While she agrees that secularism is a means of empowerment, she argues that we have misunderstood the sources of secular empowerment and the kinds of strength to which it aspires. Contemporary understandings of secularism, Cooper contends, have been shaped by a limited understanding of it as a shift from vulnerability to power. But the works of the foundational thinkers of secularism tell a different story. Analyzing the writings of Hobbes, Spinoza, and Rousseau at the moment of secularity’s inception, she shows that all three understood that acknowledging one’s limitations was a condition of successful self-rule. And while all three invited humans to collectively build and sustain a political world, their invitations did not amount to self-deification. Cooper establishes that secular politics as originally conceived does not require a choice between power and vulnerability. Rather, it challenges us—today as then—to reconcile them both as essential components of our humanity.
Secular Power Europe And Islam
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Author : Sarah Wolff
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2021-06-08
Secular Power Europe And Islam written by Sarah Wolff and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-08 with Political Science categories.
Reconsidering the European Union's secular identity
Powers Of The Secular Modern
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Author : David Scott
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2006
Powers Of The Secular Modern written by David Scott and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Social Science categories.
This book presents a set of critical engagements by writers from a variety of disciplines with the work of noted anthropologist Talal Asad.
The Secular Revolution
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Author : Christian Smith
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003
The Secular Revolution written by Christian Smith and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
This collection presents a radical rethinking of the secularization of American public life.
Supernatural And Secular Power In Early Modern England
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Author : Marcus Harmes
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Supernatural And Secular Power In Early Modern England written by Marcus Harmes and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with History categories.
For the people of early modern England, the dividing line between the natural and supernatural worlds was both negotiable and porous - particularly when it came to issues of authority. Without a precise separation between ’science’ and ’magic’ the realm of the supernatural was a contested one, that could be used both to bolster and challenge various forms of authority and the exercise of power in early modern England. In order to better understand these issues, this volume addresses a range of questions regarding the ways in which ideas, beliefs and constructions of the supernatural threatened and conflicted with authority, as well as how the power of the supernatural could be used by authorities (monarchical, religious, legal or familial) to reinforce established social norms. Drawing upon a range of historical, literary and dramatic texts the collection reveals intersecting early modern anxieties in relation to the supernatural, issues of control and the exercise of power at different levels of society, from the upper echelons of power at court to local and domestic spaces, and in a range of publication contexts - manuscript sources, printed prose texts and the early modern stage. Divided into three sections - ’Magic at Court’, ’Performance, Text and Language’ and ’Witchcraft, the Devil and the Body’ - the volume offers a broad cultural approach to the subject that reflects current research by a range of early modern scholars from the disciplines of history and literature. By bringing scholars into an interdisciplinary dialogue, the case studies presented here generate fresh insights within and between disciplines and different methodologies and approaches, which are mutually illuminating.
The Power Of Religion In The Public Sphere
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Author : Judith Butler
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2011
The Power Of Religion In The Public Sphere written by Judith Butler and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Philosophy categories.
Eduardo Mendieta is professor of philosophy at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. --
Secular Power And Sacral Authority In Medieval East Central Europe
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Author : Kosana Jovanović
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Secular Power And Sacral Authority In Medieval East Central Europe written by Kosana Jovanović and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Europe categories.
This book brings together a team of scholars representing a broad range of interests and new approaches in medieval studies to explore the interactions of secular power and sacral authority in central and southeastern Europe in the period. Contributors present new research on the region's political and legal history, nobility and government institutions, war and diplomacy, literature and literacy, sacred and secular art, archaeological research, heritage studies, and much more.
From Caliphate To Secular State
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Author : Hakan Özoglu
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2011-06-24
From Caliphate To Secular State written by Hakan Özoglu and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-24 with History categories.
This insightful analysis looks at the power struggles of 1920–1926, a time during which the Ottoman Empire was replaced by a secular and modernist Turkish nationalist regime. Covering a short but eventful period in Ottoman/Turkish history From Caliphate to Secular State: Power Struggle in the Early Turkish Republic focuses on three major political and judicial maneuvers to demonstrate how opposition to and within the emerging Turkish regime was addressed during those pivotal years, and how the resulting power struggle contributed to the form of the new state that arose. The analysis begins in 1918 when the Ottoman Empire, having lost World War I, was waiting for its fate to be determined by the Allied Powers. The book examines the original intentions and vision of Mustafa Kemal (later known as Mustafa Kemal Atatürk), as well as the effects of the Kurdish uprising in 1925, which helped the new regime silence its critics. The ongoing power struggles and their consequences are examined through 1927, after which the new regime quashed any and all opposition, enabling the new Turkish Republic to emerge as a staunchly secular, modernizing Western state.
Supernatural And Secular Power In Early Modern England
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Author : Victoria Bladen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Supernatural And Secular Power In Early Modern England written by Victoria Bladen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Authority categories.
Faith And Power
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Author : Lesslie Newbigin
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2005-06-01
Faith And Power written by Lesslie Newbigin and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-01 with Religion categories.
"The issue . . . in the multicultural millennium is not so much the 'Islamization' of a once-Christian culture as the emergence, with state collusion, of discrete territories where vastly different norms prevail, shut off and resentful, a breeding ground for ferment and a target for hostility." In the aftermath of the London suicide bombings, this unusual book seems more prophetic than ever. Begun six years before 9/11, it examined the roots of political Islam and its offshoots in Britain. In describing the indifference of policy makers and government officials to religion, it warned of extremism taking root among disaffected young Muslims -- and offered a vision of hope tempered with realism that might have helped avert tragedy had it been more widely heeded. The book's timely republication offers another -- and a way out of it. Lamin Sanneh, himself a former Muslim, explores the history of Islam's always controversial accommodations with the West. Jenny Taylor's debut engages contribution critically at the grassroots level, looking in detail at Islam in Britain, its mission and tactics, and the State's inadequate response to them. "Neglect would appear to have been government policy." Lesslie Newbigin describes the loss of a sense of direction in the West as bankrupt secular ideologies confront fundamentalism with politically correct platitudes or coercive legislation that is destroying the West's historic freedoms. All three authors call for a radical Christian critique to replace the false and evidently failed policies of neutrality of the State.