Religion and Violence in a Secular World: Toward a New
Political Theology |
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| Edited by Clayton Crockett |
| 256 pages, 6 x 9 |
| Cloth 978-0-8139-2561-5 • $49.50 |
| Paper 978-0-8139-2562-2 • $22.50 |
| Studies in
Religion and Culture |
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How are we to think about religion and violence in the contemporary
world, especially in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001?
In this collection of essays, nearly a dozen scholars, including
some of the leading voices in the field of academic religious
thought, offer a theoretical and theological response to the 9/11
attacks as well as a broader and more interdisciplinary reflection
on the issues surrounding religion and violence, politics and
terrorism, in the world today.
Drawing on Continental philosophy as a methodology, the contributors
provide insights from and implications for the Western monotheistic
traditions of Judaism and Christianity and their engagement with
the secular world. Here, religion and secularity are understood
not in opposition to one another but rather in interrelationship,
religion being seen as both implicated in and providing resources
for the overcoming of violence. Raising questions that are timely
as well as urgent, Religion and Violence in a Secular World
eschews easy solutions in an effort to foster critical and constructive
attempts to understand these complex and ambivalent phenomena.
Contributors:
John D. Caputo (Syracuse University) * Clayton Crockett (University
of Central Arkansas) * James J. DiCenso (University of Toronto)
* Martin Kavka (Florida State University) * Richard Kearney (Boston
College) * Eleanor Pontoriero (University of Toronto) * B. Keith
Putt (Samford University) * Carl A. Raschke (University of Denver)
* Jeffrey W. Robbins (Lebanon Valley College) * Noëlle Vahanian
(Lebanon Valley College) * Edith Wyschogrod (Rice University)
Clayton Crockett is Assistant Professor
in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of
Central Arkansas; he is the author of A Theology of the Sublime
and the editor of Secular Theology: American Radical Theological
Thought.
