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Cities on the Plains : Divinity and Diversity by Char Roone Miller (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cities on the Plains : Divinity and Diversity about?

Theological concepts continue to maintain political concepts well after those theological concepts are no longer supported by belief. Cities on the Plains examines some of these concepts in the light of five different times and places. It is both a response to theological concerns in contemporary political theory and broadly accessible examination of familiar political issues touched by the divine - such as gay marriage, 911, or the French tradition of laicité. Concerns of difference and the divine are pursued through broadly familiar texts (the Bible, and Gore Vidal), significant texts of political theory (Plato and Augustine), and less common texts (Averroes). Gods, or the intellectual territory they used to occupy, are treated as important features of the political; contesting with these gods can help us visit, defend, and desire, (to paraphrase Deleuze and Guatarri) new cities and new peoples.

Who reads Cities on the Plains : Divinity and Diversity?

Author

Char Roone Miller (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230613553

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Political Science