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- Contributes new insights to the field of political theology
- Provides a unique reading of Nietzsche and Augustine
- Challenges the tradition of Western Christendom from within
Part of the book series: Radical Theologies and Philosophies (RADT)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological. Even after postsecular critiques of Christianity, religion, and secularity, many influential ways of dividing time and history continue to be formed by providential narratives that mediate between experience and expectation in movements from promise to fulfilment. In response to persistent theological influences within ostensibly secular ways of understanding time and history, Postsecular History revisits and revises the concept of periodization by tracing powerful efforts to divide time into past, present, and future, and by critiquing historical partitions between the Reformation and Enlightenment. Developing a postsecular critique of theopolitical periodization in six chapters, Postsecular History questions how relations of possession, novelty, freedom, and instrumentality implied in the prefix ‘post’ are reproduced in postsecular discourses and the field of political theology.
Reviews
“This book is an interesting, engaging, and wide-ranging argument that displays considerable depth. … I conclude with the assessment that Kennel’s work is important to Christian political theology. He offers insightful engagements … and brings to view what goes on in seemingly innocent activities and habit of mind, such as periodization. … This book serves as a solid contribution to political theology at this early stage of Kennel’s career; I look forward to hearing more from his distinctive voice soon.” (Paul Doerksen, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. 96, October, 2022)
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Maxwell Kennel
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Postsecular History
Book Subtitle: Political Theology and the Politics of Time
Authors: Maxwell Kennel
Series Title: Radical Theologies and Philosophies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85758-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85757-8Published: 14 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85760-8Published: 14 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85758-5Published: 13 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2634-663X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6648
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 222
Topics: History of Religion, Politics and Religion