Radical political theology: religion and politics after liberalism

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Introduction: the freedom of radical theology after the death of God -- The parallax of religion: theology and ideology -- Sovereignty and the weakness of God -- Baruch Spinoza and the potential for a radical political theology -- Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the theo-political problem of liberalism -- Elements for radical democracy: plasticity, equality, and governmentality -- Law beyond law: Agamben, Deleuze, and the unconscious event -- Radical theology and the event: Deleuze with Paul -- Plasticity and the future of theology: messianicity and the deconstruction of Christianity -- Conclusion: six theses on political theology.;In the 1960s, the strict opposition between the religious and the secular began to break down, blurring the distinction between political philosophy and political theology. This collapse contributed to the decline of modern liberalism, which supported a neutral, value-free space for capitalism. It also deeply unsettled political, religious, and philosophical realms, forced to confront the conceptual stakes of a return to religion. Gamely intervening in a contest that defies simple resolutions, Clayton Crockett conceives of the postmodern convergence of the secular and the religious. Introduction: the freedom of radical theology after the death of God -- The parallax of religion: theology and ideology -- Sovereignty and the weakness of God -- Baruch Spinoza and the potential for a radical political theology -- Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss, and the theo-political problem of liberalism -- Elements for radical democracy: plasticity, equality, and governmentality -- Law beyond law: Agamben, Deleuze, and the unconscious event -- Radical theology and the event: Deleuze with Paul -- Plasticity and the future of theology: messianicity and the deconstruction of Christianity -- Conclusion: six theses on political theology.