Religion and Politics

The volume collects eminent works on the relationship between politics and religion by leading figures in Cultural Studies. The contributors share in the basic belief that the roots of contemporary conflicts have to be uncovered from the historical descent of religion.

Bernhard Giesen and Daniel Suber, Politics and Religion: An Introduction Part A - Conceptual Perspectives Shmuel N. Eisenstadt The Transformations of the Religious Dimension in the Constitution of Contemporary Modernities Jan Assmann, Axial' Breakthroughs and Semantic 'Relocations' in Ancient Egypt and Israel Mary Douglas, Politics and Religion from an Anthropological Point of View. An Interview with Mary Douglas Thomas Luckmann, Religion and Morality in Modern Europe Compared to the Religious Situation in the United States of America Bernhard Giesen, Tales of Transcendence. Imagining the Sacred in Politics Part B - Religious Origins of Modernity Jan Assmann Monotheism and Its Political Consequences Shmuel N. Eisenstadt The Religious Origins of Modern Radical Movements Jan Assmann, Political Theology. Religion as Legitimizing Fiction in Antique and Early Modern Critique Part C - Aspects of Secularization Reinhart Koselleck, Temporal Foreshortening and Acceleration: A Study on Secularization Rudolf Schlog Secularization: German Catholicism on the Eve of Modernity Daniel Suber, Religion, Philosophy and Social Science. The Rise of Modern Social Science from the point of view of Conceptual History Matthias Koenig, Politics and Religion in European Nation-States. Institutional Varieties and Contemporary Transformations