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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
December 2017
Print publication year:
2017
Online ISBN:
9781316336120
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316336120
Subjects:
Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Sociology of Religion, Politics and International Relations, Sociology, Middle East Government,Politics and Policy
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Book description

Religious faith has been gaining in reach and influence throughout global politics over the last three decades, most prominently in the Middle East, and theologies of this nature are based on the understanding that faith in God is to be based, primarily and predominantly, on the realness of God's presence. The West, accustomed to its own discussion on religion and politics emphasising democracy and individual freedoms, has been at a loss to explain and engage these rising religious polities. Through an innovative approach to the role of faith in politics, Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State considers political theologies of the real formulated during the twentieth century and proposes that, while religion in the West has been committed to absolutist vision, these theologies have drawn their strength from a commitment to their concrete, divinely infused reality.

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'Through an innovative approach to the role of faith in politics, this volume considers political theologies of the real formulated during the twentieth century and proposes that, while religion in the West has been committed to absolutist vision, these theologies have drawn their strength from a commitment to their concrete, divinely infused reality.'

Source: Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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References

Select Bibliography

This is, indeed, a select bibliography. The book’s style is personal and essayistic, not allowing for much studious reference. The bibliography is meant as a roadmap of sorts through the various fields and disciplines that provided pastures and havens on my path toward engagements with theologies of the real. Other works were consulted as well, but the ones appearing below had significant influence on my thinking and writing. I’ve attempted to list the newest editions available of the works mentioned.

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Medding, Peter, Mapai in Israel: Political Organization and Government in a New Society (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
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Milbank, John, Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006).
Milbank, John, The Word Made Strange: Theology, Language, Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 1997).
Mirsky, Yehudah, Rav Kook: Mystic in a Time of Revolution (Yale University Press, 2014).
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Mottahedeh, Roy, The Mantle of the Prophet: Religion and Politics in Iran (Oneworld Publications, 2008).
Murray, Williamson and Woods, Kevin, The Iran–Iraq War: A Military and Strategic History (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
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Pals, Daniel, Nine Theories of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Pickstock, Catherine, After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 1997).
Pickstock, Catherine, Repetition and Identity: The Literary Agenda (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Razoux, Pierre, The Iran–Iraq War (Belknap Press, 2015).
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Silberstein, Laurence, The Postzionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture (Routledge, 1999).
Tanizaki, Junichiro, In Praise of Shadows (Leete’s Island Books, 1977).
Taub, Gadi, The Settlers and the Struggle over the meaning of Zionism (Yale University Press, 2011).
Taylor, Charles, A Secular Age (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007).
Taylor, Charles, Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Harvard University Press, 1992).
Tuan, Yi-Fu, Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (University of Minnesota Press, 2001).
Vahdat, Farzin, God and Juggernaut: Iran’s Intellectual Encounter with Modernity (Syracuse University Press, 2002).
Warrick, Joby, Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (Anchor, 2016).
Weiss, Michael and Hassan, Hassan, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Regan Arts, 2015).
Westphal, Merold, Kierkegaard’s Concept of Faith (Eerdmans, 2014).
Winzeler, Robert, Anthropology and Religion: What We Know, Think and Question (AltaMira Press, 2012).
Wistrich, Robert and Ohana, David (eds.), The Shaping of Israeli Identity: Myth, Memory and Trauma (Routledge, 1995).
Zertal, Idith and Eldar, Akiva, Lords of the Land: The War for Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967–2007 (Nation Books, 2007).
Žižek, Slavoj, On Belief (Routledge, 2001).
Agamben, Giorgio, The Sublime Object of Ideology (Verso, 2009).
Žižek, Slavoj and Gunjevich, Boris, God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse (Seven Stories Press, 2012).

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