Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics: Negotiating Transitive Spaces and Hybrid Identities

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Negotiations in Transitive Spaces....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Culture, Location, and the Problem of Transitive Identity....Pages 15-29
Going Home in the Work of Charles H. Long and Ashis Nandy....Pages 31-42
The Politics of Statelessness: Edward Said and the Ambiguities of Liberal Nationalism....Pages 43-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Self-Cultivation and the Practices of Peace: Foucault on the Stoics and Peacemaking in the Modern World....Pages 69-88
“The Better Angels of Our Nature” Sophocles’ Antigone and the Crisis of Union....Pages 89-105
Oedipus at Colonus and The Gospel at Colonus: African American Experience and the Classical Text....Pages 107-117
The Power of Horror: Variations and Re-framings of The Bacchae....Pages 119-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
The Transitive “In-Between”: Culture, Meaning, and the Political in Voegelin and Bhabha....Pages 135-149
Negotiating Space(s): Reframing Political Conflict in Walzer and Lyotard....Pages 151-170
Alice Walker: Suffering and the Task of the Revolutionary Artist....Pages 171-183
The Limits of Reconstruction: Reconstituting Community in Martin Luther King, Jr.....Pages 185-200
Conclusions from a Transitive Space....Pages 201-204
Back Matter....Pages 205-258