Why Politics Can't Be Freed From Religion (PDF)

Acknowledgments 1. When God Plays Politics: Radical Interrogations of Religion, Power, and Politics 2. Interrogating 'Religion' 1. Religion Trouble 2. 'Seeing' Religion: Six Common Clichés 3. Gagging at the Feast of Two Unexamined Assumptions: Religion, All Good or All Bad 4. The Religion-Is-No-Good Cliché 5. The Second Set of Two Clichés: Religion Is Belief and Belief in God 6. 'Religion's' Private Parts 7. Powerless in Paradise 8. Two Ways to Eliminate 'Religion' 9. Is Religion Our Phlogiston? An Historical Test Case 10. Talal Asad's 'Religion' Trouble 11. The Trick of Defining 'Religion' 12. Owning 'Religion' 13. How Durkheim Took 'Ownership' of 'Religion' 14. Religion and Its Despisers 3. Interrogating 'Power' 1. Confronting the Paradox of 'Power' 2. How 'Power' Plays Havoc with Thinking about "Institutional Violence" 3. Whom Should We Blame? 'History' on Trial 4. History's Helper: We Should Also Blame Foucault 5. Problematizing Power in South Africa 6. Foucault versus Foucault 7. Thinking about Power as Auctoritas and Hierarchy 8. What More Is to Be Done? Thinking about Power as Auctoritas and Social Force 4. Interrogating 'Politics' 1. Defining 'Politics' 2. Where There Is No Politics: Despotism and Totalitarianism 3. Autonomous Politics 4. Where Our 'Politics' Makes No Sense 5. Politics, the Construct 6. Two Pernicious Views of 'Politics' 7. History Lessons for Professor Morgenthau 8. What Constitutionalism Owes the Council of Constance 9. The Emergence of the Political . . . from the Religious 10. Machiavelli and Luther: Critical Contributions to the Autonomy of Politics 11. Foucault's Fault II: 'Everything Is Political' 12. The Hidden Fascism of Thinking that Everything Is Political 13. Public and Private: No Absolute Line of Demarcation 14. Resisting the Panopticon 15. Afterword: The Autonomy of 'Politics' and the Nation-State 5. Testing Interrogations of 'Religion,' 'Power,' and 'Politics': Human Bombers and the Authority of Sacrifice in the Middle East

Ivan Strenski is Holstein Family and Community Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of numerous books, including: Contesting Sacrifice: Religion, Nationalism and Social Thought (2002); Theology and the First Theory of Sacrifice (2003); The New Durkheim: Essays on Philosophy, Religious Identity and the Politics of Knowledge (2006); Thinking About Religion: An Historical Introduction to Theories of Religion and Thinking About Religion: A Reader (both Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).

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