The Babylon complex : theopolitical fantasies of war, sex, and sovereignty /

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Following allusions to Babylon in secular and religious discourse in the decade after 9.11, this book explores the complicated influence of the Bible on U.S. political thought. Runions shows that the Babylon complex contends with anxieties about the loss of political sovereignty in economic globaliz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Runions, Erin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Temas:
2000-2099
Church and state > United States > History > 21st century.
Christian sociology > United States > History > 21st century.
War > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Sovereignty > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Église et État > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Sociologie religieuse > Christianisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Guerre > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Sexualité > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Souveraineté > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Religion, Politics & State.
Christian sociology.
Church and state.
United States.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Babylon and the crisis of sovereignty
  • From Babel to biopolitics : Josephus, theodemocracy, and the regulation of pleasure
  • Bellicose dreams : Babylon and exception to law
  • Tolerating Babel : biopolitics, film, and family
  • Revenge on Babylon : literalist allegory, Scripture, torture
  • Who lives in Babylon? The gay Antichrist as political enemy
  • Babelian scripture: a queerly sublime ethics of reading
  • Postlude : roads to Babel.

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