Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State

Theologies of the Real

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ID19919502
AuthorsOri Goldberg (0009-0002-6725-8017, Reichman University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Publication date2017-12-21
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFaith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781316336120
OpenAlexW2774158949
ISBN9781316336120
Open LibraryOL34746577M
LanguageEN
References cited15

Religious faith has been gaining in reach and influence throughout global politics over the last three decades, most prominently in the Middle East, and theologies of this nature are based on the understanding that faith in God is to be based, primarily and predominantly, on the realness of God's presence. The West, accustomed to its own discussion on religion and politics emphasising democracy and individual freedoms, has been at a loss to explain and engage these rising religious polities. Through an innovative approach to the role of faith in politics, Faith and Politics in Iran, Israel, and the Islamic State considers political theologies of the real formulated during the twentieth century and proposes that, while religion in the West has been committed to absolutist vision, these theologies have drawn their strength from a commitment to their concrete, divinely infused reality

Democracy · Faith · Islam · Middle East · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies

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