All the Kingdoms of the World

On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism

Bibliographic Data

ID19985945
AuthorsKevin Vallier (0000-0001-9407-6716, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, corresponding author), Vallier Vallier
Year2023
Publication date2023-08-24
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAll the Kingdoms of the World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University PressNew York (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780197611371.001.0001
OpenAlexW4386140667
Open LibraryOL48869627M
ISBN9780197611371
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited85

According to a common narrative, the twentieth century spelled the end of faith-infused political movements. Their ideologies, like Catholic integralism, would soon be forgotten. Humans were finally learning to keep religion out of politics. Or were we? In the twenty-first century, nations as diverse as Russia, India, Poland, and Turkey have seen a revival of religious politics, and many religious movements in other countries have proved similarly resilient. A new generation of political theologians passionately reformulates ancient religious doctrines to revolutionize modern political life. They insist that states recognize the true religion, and they reject modern liberal ideals of universal religious freedom and church-state separation. In this book, philosopher Kevin Vallier explores these new doctrines, not as lurid oddities but as though they might be true. The anti-liberal doctrine known as Catholic integralism serves as Vallier’s test case. Yet his approach naturally extends to similar ideologies within Chinese Confucianism and Sunni Islam. Vallier treats anti-liberal thinkers with respect that liberals seldom afford them and offers more moderate skeptics of liberalism a clear account of the alternatives. Many liberals, by contrast, will find these doctrines frightening and strange but of enduring interest. Vallier invites all his readers on a unique intellectual adventure, encouraging them to explore unfamiliar ideals through the lenses of theology, philosophy, politics, economics, and history

Adventure · Aesthetics · Classical liberalism · Doctrine · Environmental ethics · Faith · Ideology · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Separation of church and state · Skepticism · State (computer science) · Theology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies

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