Overview
This book explores how contemporary approaches to the meaning of time and history follow patterns that are simultaneously political and theological. Even after postsecular critiques of Christianity, religion, and secularity, many influential ways of dividing time and history continue to be formed by providential narratives that mediate between experience and expectation in movements from promise to fulfilment. In response to persistent theological influences within ostensibly secular ways of understanding time and history, Postsecular History revisits and revises the concept of periodization by tracing powerful efforts to divide time into past, present, and future, and by critiquing historical partitions between the Reformation and Enlightenment. Developing a postsecular critique of theopolitical periodization in six chapters, Postsecular History questions how relations of possession, novelty, freedom, and instrumentality implied in the prefix ‘post’ are reproduced in postsecular discourses and the field of political theology.
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Author: Maxwell Kennel
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition: 2022 ed.
Weight: 0.318kg
ISBN: 9783030857608
ISBN 10: 3030857603
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 14 November 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
“This book is an interesting, engaging, and wide-ranging argument that displays considerable depth. … I conclude with the assessment that Kennel’s work is important to Christian political theology. He offers insightful engagements … and brings to view what goes on in seemingly innocent activities and habit of mind, such as periodization. … This book serves as a solid contribution to political theology at this early stage of Kennel’s career; I look forward to hearing more from his distinctive voice soon.” (Paul Doerksen, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. 96, October, 2022)
This book is an interesting, engaging, and wide-ranging argument that displays considerable depth. ... I conclude with the assessment that Kennel's work is important to Christian political theology. He offers insightful engagements ... and brings to view what goes on in seemingly innocent activities and habit of mind, such as periodization. ... This book serves as a solid contribution to political theology at this early stage of Kennel's career; I look forward to hearing more from his distinctive voice soon. (Paul Doerksen, Mennonite Quarterly Review, Vol. 96, October, 2022)
Author Information
Maxwell Kennel is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto.
