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Monotheism, Intolerance, and the Path to Pluralistic Politics
About this book
Discussions of monotheism often consider its bigotry toward other gods as a source of conflict, or emphasize its universality as a source of peaceful tolerance. Both approaches, however, ignore the combined danger and liberation in monotheism's 'intolerance.' In this volume, Christopher Haw reframes this important argument. He demonstrates the value of rejecting paradigms of inclusivity in favor of an agonistic pluralism and intolerance of absolutism. Haw proposes a model that retains liberal, pluralistic principles while acknowledging their limitations, and he relates them to theologies latent in political ideas. His volume offers a nuanced, evolutionary, and historical understanding of the biblical tradition's emergence and its political consequences with respect to violence. It suggests how we can mediate impasses between liberal and conservative views in culture wars; between liberal inclusivity and conservative decisionism; and, on the religious front, between apologetics for exclusive monotheism and critiques of its intolerance.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction: Monotheism and Pluralism
- 1 Pluralism's Requisite Intolerance
- 2 Girard's Mimetic Theory and Monotheism's Ambivalent Effects
- 3 Monotheism and the Monopoly on Violence: Freud and Girard
- 4 Containing Violence and Two Entirely Different Kinds of Religion
- 5 Polytheism and the Victim in Ancient Egypt
- 6 A Political Theology of the Mosaic Distinction: The Development of Apophatic Intolerance
- 7 Jesus Christ and Intolerance: Toward Revelation without Rivalry
- 8 Conclusion: How to Be Intolerant
- Bibliography
- Index