Political Theology

Marinos Diamantides is Reader in Law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the author of The Ethics of Suffering (Ashgate, 2000) and the editor of Islam, Law and Identity (Routledge-Cavendish, 2011) and Law, Levinas, Politics Routledge-Cavendish, 2009). Anton Schutz is a senior lecturer in law at Birkbeck, University of London. He is editor of Law, Text, Terror with Peter Goodrich and Lior Barshak, (Routledge-Cavendish, 2006) and a contributing author to many works on legal theory including: The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2008).

Introduction: Premises and Arguments; Part 1: Religions R Us; 1. From Sovereignty to Negeschatology; 2. Social Systems on the Cross; 3. The Religion of Progress; 4. Political Theology beyond Schmitt; Part 2: Historicised Political Theology; 5. From Jerusalem to Rome via Constantinople; 6. The Transition from Secularism to Post-Secularism; 7. Deeds Without Words; Notes, Index.