Two Theses on the Problem of Politics (al-siyasa) in Comparative Political Theology
The nascent conversation in comparative political theology has been preoccupied with the question of the appropriateness of the theological as an exchangeable category across vast geographies and timescapes. What has gone nearly unexamined in this welcome process of deprovincialization, however, is...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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Political theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 106-118 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Politics
/ Arabic language
/ Concept of
/ Islam
/ Political theology
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
siyasa
B Islam B Sudan B Political Theology |
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| Summary: | The nascent conversation in comparative political theology has been preoccupied with the question of the appropriateness of the theological as an exchangeable category across vast geographies and timescapes. What has gone nearly unexamined in this welcome process of deprovincialization, however, is the category of the political and its comparative purchase. Beginning with a vignette of a media interview with a Sudanese religious leader who makes use of the Arabic word we define as “politics,” al-siyasa, in a way that is confounding to common understandings of the term, my essay asks if we have too quickly embraced as taken-for-granted what we mean by the political in comparative conversations in political theology. Due to particular histories of secularization and stateifcation in Sudan, al-siyasa itself remains a contested category, as the fraught relationship between religious authority and political power persists unsettled. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.2014032 |