TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yelle,Robert A.
TI  - Sovereignty and the sacred: secularism and the political economy of religion 
SN  - 9780226585628
AV  - BL65.P7 Y45 2018eb
U1  - 201/.72 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chicago, London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - History
KW  - Holy, The
KW  - Secularism
KW  - Religion et politique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Sacr�e
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The antinomian sacred as a political category -- The disenchantment of charisma: the theological origins of secular polity -- The ambivalence of the sovereign ban: the homo sacer and the Biblical �herem -- Sacrifice, or the religious mode of production -- States of nature: the jubilee and the social contract -- No deposit, no return: religious rejections of exchange -- Conclusion: exit signs
N2  - This work draws on evidence from the Hebrew Bible to English deism, and from the Aztecs to ancient India, to develop a theory of polity that finds a place and a purpose for those aspects of religion that are often marginalized and dismissed as irrational by Enlightenment liberalism and utilitarianism
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