Religion and violence in a secular world : toward a new political theology

Publication Data

• Title Religion and violence in a secular world : toward a new political theology
• Contributor Clayton Crockett
• Publisher University of Virginia Press
• Publication date 2006
• Publication location Charlottesville, Va.
• Language English

Contents

Introduction / Clayton Crockett
Violent imitation or compassionate repetition? : Girard and Caputo on exemplary atonement / B. Keith Putt
On witches and witch hunts : violence, counterviolence, and the writing of religion / Carl A. Raschke
Radical evil and fanaticism : a rereading of Kant's Religion / James J. DiCenso
Remembering Auschwitz : Emmanuel Levinas on religion and violence / Eleanor Pontoriero
The meaning of that hour : prophecy, phenomenology, and the public sphere in the early writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel / Martin Kavka
Without sovereignty, without being : unconditionality, the coming God, and Derrida's democracy to come / John D. Caputo
Great explanation / Noëlle Vahanian
The semantic spaces of terror : a theological response / Edith Wyschogrod
Terror and the postmodern condition : toward a radical political theology / Jeffrey W. Robbins
Thinking after terror : an interreligious challenge / Richard Kearney.

Topics

• Violence :: Religious aspects

Religion and violence in a secular world : toward a new political theology. ISBN 9780813925622. Published by University of Virginia Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.