Why Politics Can't Be Freed from Religion

What is it about?

Genealogies, interrogations and critical analyses of 3 key notions in the study of politics and religion -- power, politics and religion. Creation of defensible uses of these often muddy terms. Shows how such critical work might help enlighten understanding of such politico-religious phenomena as so-called "suicide bombing."

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Why is it important?

Contrarian treatments of work on politics and religion of Robert A. Pape, Talal Asad, Michel Foucault, Carl Schmitt among other contemporary thinkers. Retrieval of political thought of anthropologist, Louis Dumont and early 20th century intellectual historian, John Neville Figgis. A rare attempt to engage political thought at a conceptual level as if religion mattered, but shorn of confessional and/or (a)theological agendas.