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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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2022
In: Political theology
Jahr: 2022, Band: 23, Heft: 1/2, Seiten: 106-118
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Politik / Arabisch / Begriff / Islam / Politische Theologie
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
BJ Islam
weitere Schlagwörter:B siyasa
B Islam
B Sudan
B Political Theology
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1743-1719
Enthält:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.2014032