The Bonds of Separation

On Community, Religion and Violence in Continental Philosophy of Religion

Volume editor Michael Staudigl

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Extent: 304 pages

Publisher: Brill | Schöningh

Subjects: Religious Studies

Series: Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society - Supplementa

Series volume number: 7

Language: English

Hardback (Forthcoming)

(November 2026)

ISBN: 9783506706102

6.1 x 9.25 inches

Price: $122.00

In a late modernity spinning out of control in the maelstrom of globalization, the question of community and the social bond resurges forcefully, embodying visions of both procedural integration and nostalgic recovery. This anthology inquires into the intersections of the inherently ambiguous quest for community, the way religious narratives accompany and feed into it, and the role of violence in the context of related social imaginaries.

Michael Staudigl is Senior lecturer at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna. His research lies at the intersection of phenomenology, social and political philosophy with special regards to the many faces of violence, notably religious violence. Since 2007, he directed several research grants, recently “The Return of Religion as a Challenge for Thought” and “Secularism and its Discontents: Toward a Phenomenology Religious Violence.”

  • Volume editor Michael Staudigl