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Political Spirituality: The Devils , Possession, and Truth-Telling
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (1): 18–35.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and in the governmental economy of the church. Crucially, love is originally a universal, immanent impulse, which is captured by religion. But if religion is an apparatus of capture, then the profanation of this universal core is possible. Religion cannot fully appropriate or exhaust the virtual potentiality of faith...
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The Politics of Transcendence
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 July 2011
...Harald Wydra Modern politics dogmatically separates politics from religion, the state from promises of salvation. This article makes a case for the fundamentally political nature of transcendence. It argues that the changing relationships between authority and salvation depend on culturally crafted...
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The Limits of Human Progress: A Critical Study
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Cultural Politics (2010) 6 (2): 229–236.
Published: 01 July 2010
...Gilbert Simondon Human progress cannot be measured by what people produce but by the stages of production. The shift from the development of language in the classical period to religion in the medieval and technical progress after the Renaissance does not tell the whole story. Each of these domains...
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What Is Anti-Utopianism? Gray, Jacoby, Jameson
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Cultural Politics (2008) 4 (2): 231–248.
Published: 01 July 2008
...Stefan Skrimshire The subject of utopianism in contemporary political life has experienced a revival of interest in the last few years. One of the most polemical contributions is John Gray’s Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia . One of the greatest benefits of this book...
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Published: 01 March 2013
Figure 6 In many ways, searching for the vestiges of traditional Chinese society is still easier in rural areas than in big cities, where life is increasingly modernized. This situation also holds for religious revival. One could say that the government no longer considers religion the “opium
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Published: 01 March 2013
Figure 5 Some observers have noted that the spread of Christianity is more vigorous today than at the peak of Protestant evangelism by Western missionaries in the 1920s. Even though the Communist Party has created an array of state-run organizations to control and manage religion, everywhere
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Cultural Policy and Music Making in Revolutionary Cuba
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Cultural Politics (2007) 3 (2): 265–268.
Published: 01 July 2007
... salaries for performing musicians), whilst other measures have been more detrimental (such as the banning of Afro-Cuban religious ceremonies in the late 1960s, and the instigation of education programs in schools and youth summer camps aimed at eradicating Afro-Cuban religions). Regarding “Afro-Cuban...
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Turkish Delight in Vienna: Art, Islam, and European Public Culture
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (3): 277–298.
Published: 01 November 2009
... and too vague, a universal religion (Islam) and a historical entity (Europe). It is difficult to relate them; they convey a sense of separation and fixity, whereas the frontiers between the two have become porous at the level of everyday practice and politics. What is at stake is the “indigenization...
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (1): 79–95.
Published: 01 March 2012
... not worship that which ye worship. Nor will ye worship that which I worship. Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion” ( Wikipedia 2011 ). 2. Other well-known authors included Guy Debord, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari. Jacques Ellul (1964) , whose work was often ignored, and Jean...
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On the Political in the Wake: Carl Schmitt and James Joyce's Political Theologies
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (2): 249–264.
Published: 01 July 2011
... democracy on the other. © BERG 2011 PRINTED IN THE UK 2011 Carl Schmitt James Joyce Nietzsche political theology dictator A recent compendium ( de Vries and Sullivan 2006 ) describes the field of “political theology” in terms of the reemergence of religion into politics and public life...
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Hegel on History, 9/11, and the War on Terror, or Reason in History
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Cultural Politics (2006) 2 (3): 281–298.
Published: 01 November 2006
... in the ordinary sense of the term, though it may indeed be theological in the unusual sense that, as Hegel sometimes indicates, he is defending religion against various theological systems ( Hegel 1953 : 16). Hegel goes on to develop the approach to history outlined here in familiar ways in respect...
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Cultural Politics (2013) 9 (1): 42–52.
Published: 01 March 2013
...Figure 6 In many ways, searching for the vestiges of traditional Chinese society is still easier in rural areas than in big cities, where life is increasingly modernized. This situation also holds for religious revival. One could say that the government no longer considers religion the “opium...
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Rejecting the Subject
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Cultural Politics (2015) 11 (3): 421–425.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Ian James The Reject: Community, Politics, and Religion after the Subject , by Goh Irving , New York : Fordham University Press , 2015 , $28 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8232-6269-4 © 2015 Duke University Press 2015 In one of his most important early works, Ego Sum , published...
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Iran and the Boomeranging Cartoon Wars: Can Public Spheres at Risk Ally with Public Spheres Yet to Be Achieved?
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Cultural Politics (2009) 5 (1): 27–62.
Published: 01 March 2009
..., January 10, 2007 Boston Globe , A5 a misled and foul group, which has misinterpreted and manipulated the values of the revered religion . . . has adopted a takfiri path, which allowed for ... killing... This ... provided a dangerous opening to opponents [of Islam] to spread their venom and revive...
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Baudrillard's Radicalization of Fetishism
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Cultural Politics (2011) 7 (3): 371–390.
Published: 01 November 2011
... religions. The fetish was just one of the many pre-Christian objects identified as belonging to superstitious belief and practice. Christian discourses had to account for the fact that the coming of monotheism was a break with the past, that it was “higher” than all the “religions” that came before, placed...
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A Surrealist Writer’s Diary of a Twenty-One-Month Anthropological Expedition
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Cultural Politics (2018) 14 (2): 263–273.
Published: 01 July 2018
... in Africa with the conception of religion received from Marcel Mauss and Georges Bataille. “The fetish appears: it is a formless mass that, when the four men have cautiously brought it out of its lair, proves to be a bag of coarse, patched cloth, covered with a sort of bitumen of coagulated blood, stuffed...
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Luxus : A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille
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Cultural Politics (2016) 12 (1): 66–82.
Published: 01 March 2016
... .” Arion 5 ( 3 ): 304 – 31 . Bataille Georges . 1991 . Consumption . Vol. 1 of The Accursed Share . Translated by Hurley Robert . New York : Zone . Bataille Georges . 1992 . Theory of Religion . Translated by Hurley Robert . New York : Zone . Bataille...
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The Despotic Imperative: From Hiero to The Circle
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Cultural Politics (2019) 15 (2): 184–201.
Published: 01 July 2019
... : 395). For the same reason, Mercer likens the Circle to a “cult taking over the world” (258). The Circle’s is an ideology that desires to become a new religion and to create a perfect community through a sacrificial logic (sacrificing privacy, freedom, democracy, etc.). It attracts many adherents...
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Reproductive Exile in Global Dubai: South Asian Stories
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Cultural Politics (2012) 8 (2): 283–306.
Published: 01 July 2012
..., Dr. Shrivastav directs a truly multinational and multisectarian clinical staff, hailing from several Middle Eastern and South Asian countries (India, Iraq, Pakistan, Palestine, the Philippines, and Sudan), as well as several major religions (Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism). Furthermore, Conceive...
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The Erotic and Pragmatic Senses of Hospitality: Jean-Luc Nancy and Bernard Stiegler's Conversation on Christianity, Politics, and the Ends of Philosophy
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Cultural Politics (2025) 21 (1): 64–73.
Published: 01 March 2025
..., in which I more or less consciously and voluntarily participated when I was an adolescent, still belonged to this order of questions, which pass through the question of the place of the Church and religion in French society, and more generally modern society, this is no longer at all the issue...
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