Theology and World Politics

Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: Voiding a Pluralist World (2017).

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Religion or Theology? (re)introducing political theology into the study of world politics (Vassilios Paipais).- PART I Metaphysics.- Chapter 2 ‘Obligations written in the heart’: Burke’s primacy of association and the renewal of political theology (Adrian Pabst).- Chapter 3 The Political Theology of Thomas Hobbes and the Theory of Interstate Society (William Bain).- Chapter 4 A Matter of Faith: Derrida, Žižek, and The Fourth ‘Overcoming of Gnosis’ (Agata Bielik-Robson).- Chapter 5 The Cosmology of Mādhyamaka Buddhism and its World of Deep Relationalism (Shannon Brincat).- PART II Genealogies.- Chapter 6 Between Transcendence and Necessity: Eric Voegelin, Martin Wight and the crisis of modern international relations (Nicholas Rengger).- Chapter 7 Political Theology and Sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in Our Times (Mustapha Kamal Pasha).- Chapter 8 The Nation, the Nations and the Third Nation: The political essence of early Christianity (György Geréby).- Chapter 9 On a Stasis of Memory or Disrupting the Postliminium (Ilias Papagiannopoulos).- PART III Political Theologies.- Chapter 10 Total War and Limited Government: the German Catholic Debate at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (Michael Hollerich).- Chapter 11 Love as a Practice of Peace: the political theologies of Tolstoy, Gandhi and King (Liane Hartnett).- Chapter 12 Reading Kant in the Light of Political Theology (Sean Molloy).- Chapter 13 Religiosity with/out Religion: Hans J. Morgenthau, Disenchantment and International Politics (John-Harmen Valk).