Theology

Ulrich Schmiedel

Terror und Theologie

Der religionstheoretische Diskurs der 9/11-Dekade

[Terror and Theology. Debating Theories of Religion in the 9/11 Decade.]

2021. XII, 436 pages.

Dogmatik in der Moderne 36

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Since the attacks of 9/11, religion has been met with suspicion. Ulrich Schmiedel examines how political theologians in the UK and the US have responded to the terror attacks. Ultimately, he develops the contours of a coalitional and comparative political theology for pluralist societies today.
At least since the attacks of 9/11, religion has been met with suspicion. In this study, Ulrich Schmiedel investigates how political theologians in the UK and the US responded to the terror attacks. The friend-foe distinction, formulated by the German legal and political scholar Carl Schmitt, emerges as a core category in the controversy about liberal and post-liberal theories of religion, stirred up among defenders and despisers of the Global War on Terror. Building on Dorothee Sölle's political theology, Schmiedel draws them into a conversation with Muslim scholars of religion. Ultimately, he develops the contours of a coalitional and comparative political theology for pluralist societies today.
Authors/Editors

Ulrich Schmiedel Geboren 1985; Studium der Theologie, Soziologie und Hermeneutik in Leipzig, Halle-Wittenberg, Glasgow und Stirling; 2016 Promotion in Oxford; 2021 Habilitation in München; seit 2018 Lecturer in Theology, Politics and Ethics an der School of Divinity der University of Edinburgh.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7706-4895

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Svensk Teologisk Kvartalsskrift (STK) — 2 (2023), S. 203–205 (Katja Ekman)
In: Zeitschrift für Theologie und Philosophie — 144 (2022), S. 470–473 (Paul Schroffner SJ)
In: Theologische Revue — https://doi.org/10.17879/thrv-2022–3897 (Marco Hofheinz)
In: Ethik und Gesellschaft — 1 (2023) (Lia Alessandro)
In: Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses — 52 (2022) (Fatima Tofighi)