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Thinking about Ethical Politics: Gandhi’s Spirituality versus Levinas’s Philosophy
In 1962, Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) was asked about the political implications of his ethics and the possible similarity between his philosophy and...
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Religion and Politics in Mexican History
This contribution will describe the complex history of a Catholic nation that built a secular state in order to guarantee the sovereignty of the...
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Secularism and the Death of Politics
We begin to lay out our argument in this chapter, “Secularism and the Death of Politics,” with a more detailed account of the loss of political...
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An Uneasy Relationship: Religion and Politics in Canada
Religion and politics have had an uneasy relationship in Canada since before Confederation in 1867. The first 100 years of Canada’s history were...
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Historical Dimensions of Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism
This chapter looks at the history of the relationship between prophecy and politics in South African Pentecostalism. This relationship can be traced...
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Abraham Kuyper: Church and State, Religion and Politics
Abraham Kuyper was a pastor and theologian who was drawn into politics by modernizing developments in nineteenth-century Dutch society. His...
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Occult Rumors and Politics in Ghana Juju and Statecraft
This book addresses the phenomenon of rumors about the occult in contemporary Ghanaian politics. Drawing on data from fieldwork interviews and...
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Problematising the Intersectionality of Prophecy and Politics in Post-colonial Africa
This chapter problematises the relationship between prophecy and politics in South Africa, particularly the contemporary practices of prophecy as...
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Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and Politics
This chapter singles out Prophet Shepherd Bushiri as one of the most popular prophets in South Africa and how he has been relating to various...
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Theological Imagination and the Revival of Politics: Crisis and Critique
In this chapter, “Theological Imagination and the Revival of Politics: Crisis and Critique,” we turn to twentieth-century theology to recover a...
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Christianity and Politics in a Polarized State: The Case of Nigeria
Nigeria has been in the news in recent times over the destructive and deadly activities of extremist Islamic group Boko Haram and other...
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Prophecy and Politics in South African Pentecostalism A Pentecostal Political Theology in Postcolonial Africa
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the relationship between prophecy and politics in South African Pentecostalism. The role and the power of...
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Religion and Politics in the USSR: The Cold War Era
This chapter examines the policies and institutions critical to understanding the relationship between religion and politics in the Soviet Union from...
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Political Theology and the Politics of Time
Chapter 2 develops the notion that periodizations of time and history are best characterized as...
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Other Contemporary Prophets and Politics in South Africa
This chapter explores the relationship between various Prophets and politicians in the South African context. The chapter will look at how the...
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Augustine’s “Inner Self” and Identity Politics
Augustine’s thought presents two types of interiority. One is shared and universal, and humans were always meant to have it. The other comes about...
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Niebuhr’s Christian Realism on Religion, Politics, and Today’s Crises
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was, next to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the most influential American Christian thinker of the twentieth century on...
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Fátima and the Referendum: Pilgrimage as Temporal Work in Bougainville Politics
How are transcendental temporalities and powers mobilised and used to shape the world we live in? This chapter focuses on how in the Autonomous...
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Survey of Conciliar Documents on Ecclesiology and the Lay Apostolate in Politics
Before discussing the theologians who will provide the conceptual lens to make a critical evaluation of Vatican II’s writings, there first needs to...