TY - BOOK
T1 - Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty
A2 - Stack, Trevor
A2 - Goldenberg, Naomi R
A2 - Fitzgerald, Timothy
PY - 2015/5/26
Y1 - 2015/5/26
N2 - Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government. They draw on perspectives from history, anthropology, moral philosophy, theology and religious studies, as well as empirical analysis of India, Japan, Mexico, the United States, Israel-Palestine, France and the United Kingdom.
AB - Religious-secular distinctions have been crucial to the way in which modern governments have rationalised their governance and marked out their sovereignty – as crucial as the territorial boundaries that they have drawn around nations. The authors of this volume provide a multi-dimensional picture of how the category of religion has served the ends of modern government. They draw on perspectives from history, anthropology, moral philosophy, theology and religious studies, as well as empirical analysis of India, Japan, Mexico, the United States, Israel-Palestine, France and the United Kingdom.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004290594
DO - 10.1163/9789004290594
M3 - Book
SN - 978-90-04-29055-6
T3 - Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion
BT - Religion as a category of governance and sovereignty
PB - Brill
CY - Leiden
ER -
