Terror und Theologie

Der religionstheoretische Diskurs der 9/11-Dekade

by Ulrich Schmiedel

Book cover: Terror und Theologie

Extent: 448 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Dogmatik in der Moderne

Series volume number: 36

Language: German

Paperback (Published)

(September 2021)

ISBN: 9783161607943

9.09 x 6.06 inches

Price: $143.00

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At least since the attacks of 9/11, religion has been met with suspicion. In this study, Ulrich Schmiedel investigates how political theologians in the UK and the US responded to the terror attacks. The friend-foe distinction, formulated by the German legal and political scholar Carl Schmitt, emerges as a core category in the controversy about liberal and post-liberal theories of religion, stirred up among defenders and despisers of the Global War on Terror. Building on Dorothee Solle’s political theology, Schmiedel draws them into a conversation with Muslim scholars of religion. Ultimately, he develops the contours of a coalitional and comparative political theology for pluralist societies today.

  • By (author) Ulrich Schmiedel