Force of God

Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

Carl A. Raschke

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Columbia University Press
11 August 2015

Social & political philosophy; Comparative religion; Religious social & pastoral thought & activity

Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture

"For theorists in search of a political theology that is more responsive to the challenges now facing Western democracies, this book tenders a new political economy anchored in a theory of value. The political theology of the future, Carl Raschke argues, must draw on a powerful, hidden impetus-the ""force of God""-to frame a new value economy. It must also embrace a radical, ""faith-based"" revolutionary style of theory that reconceives the power of the ""theological"" in political thought and action.

Raschke ties democracy's retreat to the West's failure to confront its decadence and mobilize its vast spiritual resources. Worsening debt, rising unemployment, and gross income inequality have led to a crisis in political representation and values that twentieth-century theorists never anticipated. Drawing on the thought of Hegel and Nietzsche as well as recent work by Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Joseph Goux, Giorgio Agamben, and Alain Badiou, among others, Raschke recasts political theology for a new generation. He proposes a bold, uncompromising critical theory that acknowledges the enduring significance of Marx without his materialism and builds a vital, more spiritually grounded relationship between politics and the religious imaginary."

By: Carl A. Raschke
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 468g
ISBN: 9780231173841
ISBN 10: 0231173849
Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 11 August 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carl Raschke is professor of religious studies at the University of Denver, specializing in Continental philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the theory of religion. He is the author of Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body, GloboChrist, and Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory. Cofounder of the Global Art & Ideas Network, he is senior editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and current events editor for Political Theology Today.

Reviews for Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

Carl Raschke both acutely examines key thinkers and thoroughly, deeply develops the historical and theoretical contexts for their respective theories. Force of God, with its depth of engagement, will change the on-going conversation around the relationship of political theology and subjectivity to past, present, and future articulations of democracy. -- Victor E. Taylor, York College of Pennsylvania Force of God is a manifesto of searing personal vision with the rhetoric to match. -- Mike Grimshaw, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Canterbury, New Zealand