Abstract
In our supposedly secular age, the ‘return of religion’ has exploded across our political horizons and presents a significant challenge to secular, liberal, and democratic politics. One way to make sense of this is through the paradigm of political theology, which refers to the way that secular political institutions - particularly the sovereign state - are structured around theological categories and still bear the trace of the religious world they replaced. My paper explores the relevance of political theology for political theory, and argues that recent political phenomena - such as the renewed demand for strong sovereignty, authoritarian populist and post-liberal forms of politics, as well as the identity politics that characterises both the left and the right in different ways, may be seen as an expression of the political theological problematic that has yet to be resolved.
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Political theology Democracy Secularism and post-secularism Populism Carl Schmitt Sovereignty
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