Political Theology Today

Introduction Mitchell Dean, Lotte List, Stefan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Section 1: State, Democracy and Violence 1. What’s left of Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology? Mitchell Dean (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) 2. The populist promise in Carl Schmitt’s political theology Tim Christiaens (Tilburg University, the Netherlands) 3. Political atheism: towards a profane reconceptualization of the modern state Mikkel Flohr (Roskilde University, Denmark) Section 2: Theology, Religion and the Public Sphere 4. Rituals of truth: oath, public discussion, acclamation Montserrat Herrero (University of Navarra, Spain) 5. Atheism, postsecularism and the legitimacy of democracy Miguel Vatter (Deakin University, Australia) 6. Political theology, values and LGBTQ+ as civil religion Stefan Schwarzkopf (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) Section 3: Modernity, History and Time 7. Crisis sovereignty: political metaphysics in crisis times Lotte List (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark) 8. One world: history and space in Schmitt’s post-war political theology Nicholas Heron (The University of Queensland, Australia) 9. Explosive publics in the interzones of political theology and political mythology Christiane Mossin (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Section 4: Beyond the European Gaze 10. Toward a political theology of postcoloniality Kwok Pui-lan (Emory University, USA) 11. Political theology and uncertainty in international relations William Bain (National University of Singapore, Singapore) Coda to Section 4: Asia and the political theology turn: revisiting and overcoming Schmitt in the centenary Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews, UK) Index