Theology and World Politics

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology. Contributions to this collection highlight the political theological foundations of international theory and world politics, recasting theology and politics as symbiotic discourses with all the risks, promises and open questions this relation may involve. The overarching claim the book makes is that all politics has theology embedded in it, both in the genealogical sense of carrying ineradicable traces of rival theological traditions, and also in the more ontological sense of being enacted by alternative configurations of the theologico-political. The book is unique in bringing together a diverse group of scholars, spanning knowledge areas as varied as IR, political theory, philosophy, theology, and history to investigate the complex interconnections between theology and world politics. It will be of interest to students and scholars of political theory, international relations, intellectual history, and political theology. Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: Voiding a Pluralist World (2017).

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Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: Voiding a Pluralist World (2017).

Inhalt
Chapter 1Introduction: Religion or Theology? (re)introducing political theology into the study of world politics Vassilios Paipais
PART I Metaphysics
Chapter 2'Obligations written in the heart': Burke's primacy of association and the renewal of political theologyAdrian Pabst
Chapter 3The Political Theology of Thomas Hobbes and the Theory of Interstate SocietyWilliam Bain
Chapter 4A Matter of Faith: Derrida, iek, and The Fourth 'Overcoming of Gnosis' Agata Bielik-Robson
Chapter 5The Cosmology of Mdhyamaka Buddhism and its World of Deep RelationalismShannon Brincat
PART II Genealogies
Chapter 6Between Transcendence and Necessity: Eric Voegelin, Martin Wight and the crisis of modern international relationsNicholas Rengger
Chapter 7Political Theology and Sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in Our TimesMustapha Kamal Pasha
Chapter 8The Nation, the Nations and the Third Nation: The political essence of early ChristianityGyörgy Geréby
Chapter 9On a Stasis of Memory or Disrupting the PostliminiumIlias Papagiannopoulos
PART III Political Theologies
Chapter 10Total War and Limited Government: the German Catholic Debate at the Dawn of the Nuclear AgeMichael Hollerich
Chapter 11Love as a Practice of Peace: the political theologies of Tolstoy, Gandhi and KingLiane Hartnett
Chapter 12Reading Kant in the Light of Political TheologySean Molloy
Chapter 13Religiosity with/out Religion: Hans J. Morgenthau, Disenchantment and International PoliticsJohn-Harmen Valk