Ebook: Religion and power: no logos without mythos

Introduction -- Secularisation, secularism and the post-secular: the power dimension -- Part I. Religion, war and violence -- The problematic -- The rhetorical issue of sentences about religion and violence -- Modes of truth and rival narratives -- The rival narratives -- Part II. Religion and nationalism, religion and politics -- The political future of religion -- Nationalism and religion : collective identity and choice -- Charisma and founding fatherhood -- Religion and politics -- Religion, politics and secularisation -- No logos without mythos -- Part III. Religion, power and emplacement -- The historical ecology of European and North American religion -- Inscribing the general theory of secularisation and its basic patterns in the space/time of the city -- England and London -- Moscow and Eurasia : centre and periphery, ethno-religion and voluntarism, secularisation and de-secularisation.