Sovereignty and the sacred : secularism and the political economy of religion / Robert A. Yelle.
Material type: TextPublisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780226585628
- 022658562X
- 201/.72 23
- BL65.P7 Y45 2018eb
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.
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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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