Political Christianity in Renaissance Drama

A Renaissance of Political Culture?

political economy of china in central asia

this research is about the political economy of china in central asia. in this research the political & economic interactions affected on chinas political economy in central asia are examined. chinas goal of presence in central asia including political-security, economic and energy goals is described in one part. in another part, the trade relations between china and central asian countries ar...

Religious Roots of a Political Ideology: Judaism and Christianity at the Cradle of Zionism

Albeit overtly secular, Zionist ideology was inspired by religious thought. While traditional religions often supported the nationalist cause, the relationship of Judaism and Zionism is vastly different. Adepts of traditional Judaism immediately rejected Zionism, and this rejectionist attitude has not vanished to this day. On the other hand, Christian, mainly Protestant theologians had develope...

Capitalism, Christianity and Critical Explanation: Evaluating William Connolly’s Critical Political Theory

ion, and he then elaborates the idea of particular capitalist assemblages, which at a lower level of abstraction comprise particular articulations of the capitalist axiomatic in specific historical conditions. The concrete object of investigation is, of course, capitalist-Christian assemblages in the US.6 Connolly thus stresses that the ‘state-capitalist axiomatic’ itself admits of variatio...

Religion, Idealism, Ideology, Revolution: Three radical-left views of the socio-political significance of Christianity

Contrary to some predictions, it appears religion is coming back. We are constantly being reminded that religion is becoming more important again in late modernity. Despite this, religion is still “banished to the sidelines in the contemporary field of theoretical struggle” (Beckford 2003: 12). Moreover, when religion is studied, it is often a concept of ‘religion’ so reified and generalised as...