Crediting God: Sovereignty and Religion in the Age of Global Capitalism

Contents

c o n t e n t s Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Crediting God with Sovereignty miguel vatter 1 Part One religion and polity-building 1. Religious Freedom: Preserving the Salt of the Earth fred dallmayr 29 2. A New Form of Religious Consciousness? Religion and Politics in Contemporary Muslim Contexts abdou filali-ansary 43 3. A Republic Whose Sovereign Is the Creator: The Politics of the Ban of Representation shmuel trigano 67 4. Confucianism’s Political Implications for the Contemporary World ranjoo seodu herr 83 5. Religion and the Public Sphere in Senegal: The Evolution of a Project of Modernity souleymane bachir diagne 102 Part Two the end of the saeculum and global capitalism 6. Should We Be Scared? The Return of the Sacred and the Rise of Religious Nationalism in South Asia georges dreyfus 117 7. All Nightmares Back: Dependency and Independency Theories, Religion, Capitalism, and Global Society hauke brunkhorst 142 8. The Evangelical-Capitalist Resonance Machine william e. connolly 160 v vi Contents Part Three questioning sovereignty: law and justice 9. ‘‘The War Has Not Ended’’: Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and the Paradoxes of Countersovereignty friedrich balke 179 10. Natural Right and State of Exception in Leo Strauss miguel vatter 190 11. Law and the Gift of Justice regina mara schwartz 207 12. Drawing—the Single Trait: Toward a Politics of Singularity samuel weber 221 Part Four the religion of democracy: tocqueville beyond civil religion 13. The Religious Situation in the United States 175 Years After Tocqueville josé casanova 253 14. The Avatars of Religion in Tocqueville lucien jaume 273 15. Publics, Prosperity, and Politics: The Changing Face of African American Christianity and Black Political Life eddie glaude 285 16. Conversion thomas l. dumm 305 Notes 317 List of Contributors 373 ...