Editors:
- Wide range of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities, political theory, history, law and religious studies
- One of the few volumes on political theology current with both a broad construal of the topic as a whole and specific discussions of key concepts such as conscience, secularism, and toleration
- Contemporary investigation of political theology in light of thinkers influenced by the three major monotheistic traditions
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life (BSPR, volume 6)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authority, Conscience, Toleration, Secularism: Theologico-Political Questions from the Tradition and their Contemporary Importance
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Front Matter
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Political Theology: Origins and Return?
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This new volume gives discursive shape to several key facets of the relationship among politics, theology and religious thought. Powerfully relevant to a wealth of further academic disciplines including history, law and the humanities, it sharpens the contours of our understanding in a live and evolving field. It charts the mechanisms by which, contrary to the avowed secularism of many of today’s polities, theology and religion have often, and sometimes profoundly, shaped political discourse. By augmenting this broader analysis with a selection of authoritative papers focusing on the prominent sub-field of political theology, the anthology offsets a startling academic lacuna. Alongside focused analysis of subjects such as conscience, secularism and religious tolerance, the discussion of political theology examines the tradition’s critical moments, including developments during the post-World War I Weimar republic in Germany and the epistemological imprint the theory has left behindin works by political thinkers influenced by the three major monotheistic traditions.
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Philosophy, Boston University, Boston, USA
C. Allen Speight
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Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University, Boston, USA
Michael Zank
About the editors
Allen Speight (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Boston University. A recipient of Fulbright, DAAD and Berlin Prize Fellowships, he is the author of Hegel, Literature and the Problem of Agency (Cambridge University Press, 2001); The Philosophy of Hegel (McGill-Queen's University Press/Acumen, 2008) and of numerous articles on aesthetics and ethics in German idealism; he is also co-editor/translator (with Brady Bowman) of Hegel’s Heidelberg Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2009); and co-editor of Justice, Responsibility and Reconciliation in the Wake of Conflict (Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 2013).
Michael Zank, a native of Germany, holds advanced degrees in Protestant Theology and Near Eastern and Judaic and Studies. He teaches religious studies and philosophy of religion at Boston University where he also servesas director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. He is the author, most recently, of Jewish Philosophy of Religion as Mosaic Faith Apologetics (Tübingen 2016; in German) and of Jerusalem. A Brief History, forthcoming with Blackwell Publ.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics, Religion and Political Theology
Editors: C. Allen Speight, Michael Zank
Series Title: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1082-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1080-8Published: 13 July 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1484-4Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1082-2Published: 30 June 2017
Series ISSN: 2352-8206
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8214
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 242
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Classical Studies