audiobook Women and Slavery; Vol. 1: Africa; the Indian Ocean World; and the Medieval North Atlantic by From Brand: Ohio University Press in History

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What has happened to religion in its present manifestations? In recent years; Enlightenment secularization; as it appeared in the global spread of political structures that relegate the sacred to a private sphere; seems suddenly to have foundered. Unexpectedly; it has discovered its own parochialism―has discovered; indeed; that secularization may never have taken place at all.With the “return of the religious;” in all aspects of contemporary social; political; and religious life; the question of political theology―of the relation between “political” and “religious” domains―takes on new meaning and new urgency. In this groundbreaking book; distinguished scholars from many disciplines―philosophy; political theory; anthropology; classics; and religious studies―seek to take the full measure of this question in today’s world.This book begins with the place of the gods in the Greek polis; then moves through Augustine’s two cities and early modern religious debates; to classic statements about political theology by such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt. Essays also consider the centrality of tolerance to liberal democracy; the recent French controversy over wearing the Muslim headscarf; and “Bush’s God talk.” The volume includes a historic discussion between Jürgen Habermas and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger; now Pope Benedict XVI; concerningthe prepolitical moral foundations of a republic; and it concludes with explorations of new; more open ways of conceptualizing society.