Religion And Politics: Cultural Perspectives (International Studies in Religion and Society)

Acknowledgements......Page 7
Politics and Religion: An Introduction (Bernhard Giesen and Daniel Šuber)......Page 9
PART A POLITICS AND RELIGION: CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 23
The Transformations of the Religious Dimension in the Constitution of Contemporary Modernities (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt)......Page 25
\'Axial\' Breakthroughs and Semantic \'Relocations\' in Ancient Egypt and Israel (Jan Assmann)......Page 47
Politics and Religion from an Anthropological Point of View: An Interview with Mary Douglas (Daniel Šuber and Marco Kaiser)......Page 63
Religion and Morality in Modern Europe Compared to the Religious Situation in the United States of America (Thomas Luckmann)......Page 83
Tales of Transcendence: Imagining the Sacred in Politics (Bernhard Giesen)......Page 101
PART B RELIGIOUS ORIGINS OF MODERNITY......Page 147
Monotheism and Its Political Consequences (Jan Assmann)......Page 149
The Religious Origins of Modern Radical Movements (Shmuel N. Eisenstadt)......Page 169
Political Theology: Religion as Legitimizing Fiction in Antique and Early Modern Critique (Jan Assmann)......Page 201
PART C ASPECTS OF MODERN SECULARIZATION......Page 213
Temporal Foreshortening and Acceleration: A Study on Secularization (Reinhart Koselleck)......Page 215
Secularization: German Catholicism on the Eve of Modernity (Rudolf Schlögl)......Page 239
Religion, Philosophy and Social Science: The Rise of Modern Social Science from the Point of View of Conceptual History (Daniel Šuber)......Page 257
Politics and Religion in European Nation-States: Institutional Varieties and Contemporary Transformations (Matthias Koenig)......Page 299
Index......Page 325