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Conscience and the Public Intellectual | Religion, Power and Politics

Religion, Power and Politics

Ever since the end of the Soviet Union, we seem unable to escape the questions arising from the intersection of religion, power and politics. While exploring this nexus in different contexts, I have also found it important to be critical of our own failure to be critical of "power" and "politics" as interpretive categories.

Articles, Chapters in Books, Papers

Books

  • 2009b Why Politics Can't Be Freed from Religion: Radical Interrogations of Religion, Power and Politics (Blackwell 'Manifesto' Series)

Articles, Chapters in Books, Papers

  • 1993 "Political Culture, Religious Culture and Sacrifice," Religious Transformations and Socio-Political Change: Eastern Europe and Latin America, L. Martin, ed., (Berlin: Mouton), 293-322.
  • 2011 "Politics and Religion of Cruelty," (in Russian) (Ekaterinburg)
  • 2010c "Meditations on the Politics and Religion of Cruelty: Part 1" Religo.ru (July)online journal, Moscow
  • 2010d "Meditations on the Politics and Religion of Cruelty: Part 2" Religo.ru (July) online journal, Moscow
  • 2009b "Islam, Nationalism and the Study of Religion in Contemporary Turkey," Council for the Study of Religion Bulletin 38/4 (November): pp. 1-4.
  • 2007a "Stubborn Scandal" (RC Priests & Sexual Harassment) Riverside Press-Enterprise, Saturday, 11 August, Section D1
  • 2007b "Of Bumper Stickers and Benedict's 'Bubbles'" Riverside Press-Enterprise, 8 April: Section D5
  • 2006 "Those Danish Cartoons: An Uncivilized (Inevitable and Irresolvable) Clash of Cultures?" Riverside Press Enterprise. February
  • 2004b "Sacrifice, Gift and the Social Logic of Muslim Human Bombers,'" Terrorism and Political Violence 15/2. pp, 1-34.
  • 2004c Replies to Hecht and Martin concerning "Sacrifice, Gift and the Social Logic of Muslim 'Human Bombers.'" Terrorism and Political Violence 15/2: pp. 57-61.
  • 1998a "Religion, Power and Final Foucault," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 66/2 (1998): 121-43.
  • 1998b "Respecting Power, Worshiping Power, and Knowing the Difference: Rejoinder to David Chidester and Gary Lease," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 66/2: 381-83.
  • 1994 "Understanding Waco", rejoinder" to Stange and Rosenfeld, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62/3 (1994): 938-46.
  • 1993 "Lessons for Religious Studies in Waco?" Journal of the American Academy of Religion 61/3: 567-74.
  • 1987 "Henri Hubert, Racial Science and Political Myth", Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 23: 353-67.
  • 1982a "Heidegger is No Hero", The Christian Century, 19 May: 598-601.
  • 1982c "Love and Anarchy in Romania: A Critical Review of Mircea Eliade's Autobiography, Volume I: 1907-37", Religion 12: 391-403.

Forthcoming 2011

  • "Sacrificial Violence and the Tragic Future of States," In Memoriam: Cristiano Grottanelli