Politics, Religion and Political Theology

1. Introduction: Politics, Religion and Political Theology: Historical and Contemporary Questions
C. Allen Speight, Michael Zank

Part I. Authority, Conscience, Toleration, Secularism: Theologico-Political Questions from the Tradition and their Contemporary Importance

2. The Authority of Conscience in Early Modern England and New England: A Reconsideration
David D. Hall

3. From Augustine to Locke and Spinoza: Answering the Christian Case Against Religious Liberty
Edwin Curley

4. Rethinking Hobbes and Locke on Toleration
Susanne Sreedhar

5. The Inevitable Entanglement of Religion and Politics
Michael Allen Gillespie

6. The Sociality of Conscience and Rawls’s Liberalism
Timothy L. Brownlee

7. Liberal Neutrality, Religion and theGood
Cécile Laborde

8. “Redefining” Secularism? Philosophical Perspectives on Secularism, Post-Secularism and theContemporary Relation Between Politics and Religion
C. Allen Speight

Part II. Political Theology: Origins and Return?

9. Theocracy and theIdea of God: Salomon Maimon on Judaism Between True Religion and Despotism
Benjamin Pollock

10. Politics, Religion and Violence: The Maccabean Wars
Jan Assmann

11. The Discourse of theEnemy
Martin Kavka

12. Merely Political: Waldemar Gurian and Carl Schmitt’s Early Political-Theological Divide
Theresa A. Cooney

13. Torah v. Jewish Law: A Genre-Critical Approach to thePolitical Theology of Reappropriation
Michael Zank

14. The Return of Political Theology: The Scarf Affair in Comparative Constitutional Perspective in France, Germany and Turkey
Seyla Benhabib

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Classical Studies