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This book explores some of the implications of interpreting Derrida through the new materialist lens of technicity or plasticity, attending to the significance of ethics, religion and politics in his later work. Here the intersection of religion and politics becomes the site for Derrida to develop a “political theology without sovereignty.” By reading Derrida from a new materialist perspective, fresh readings are offered of his ideas of sovereignty, religion, responsibility, and mourning, including engagements with Malabou, Timothy Morton, John D. Caputo, and Karen Barad...Derrida’s philosophy is relevant not just for human ethical language and animality, but to profound developments in the physical and natural sciences, as well as ecology. Here is a new reading of Derrida beyond the conventional understandings of poststructuralism and deconstruction, that is responsive to and critical of some of the newer trends in Continental philosophy.

Philosophy --- Jacques Derrida --- materialism --- political theology --- religion --- Catherine Malabou --- deconstruction --- John D. Caputo

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The politician Aldo Moro was abducted and killed in 1978 by the terrorist organisation the Red Brigades. The media then stylised Moro as a ‘state martyr’. This volume deals with the highly topical question concerning the performativity of this concept in the tension between democratic states and terrorism and reconstructs a crucial phase of post-war policy in Italy on the basis of media sources on the Moro case. What role does a term from Christian antiquity play within modern sociopolitical discourses? What changes has the term ‘martyr’ undergone in European religious and cultural history? On the basis of these questions, this study opens up an interdisciplinary theoretical horizon in order to understand the role of religious motifs in sociopolitical contexts. It brings a central new dimension to the secularisation debate, which sees secularisation as a new configuration of politics and religion.

Religion, Gewalt, media, Representation, Politics, semiotics, Political Violence, Martyr, Märtyrer, Martyrdom, Political Theology, Secularization, Performativity, Homo sacer, Sacrifice

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Christianity in China has a history dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE), when Allopen—the first Nestorian missionary—arrived there in 635. In the late sixteenth century, Matteo Ricci together with other Jesuit missionaries commenced the Catholic missions to China. Protestant Christianity in China began with Robert Morrison, of London Missionary Society, who first set foot in Canton in 1807. Over the centuries, the Western missionaries and Chinese believers were engaged in the enterprise of the translation, publication, and distribution of a large corpus of Christian literature in Chinese. While the extensive distribution of Chinese publications facilitated the propagation of Christianity, the Christian messages have been subtly re-presented, re-appropriated, and transformed by these works of Chinese Christian literature. This Special Issue entitled “Christian Literature in Chinese Contexts” examines the multifarious dimensions of the production, translation, circulation, and reception of Christian literature (with “Christian” and “literature” in their broadest sense) against the cultural and sociopolitical contexts from the Tang period to modern China. The eight articles in this volume cover a variety of intriguing topics, including the literary/translation endeavors of Western missionaries in Chinese, the indigenous works of the Chinese Christians, the interaction between the Christian and Chinese literary traditions, Chinese reception of the Bible, and numerous other relevant concepts.

Chinese Christian literature --- spiritual literature (shenxing xiezuo) --- baptism --- Bei Cun --- Shixi de he --- Shi Wei --- The Yijing (The Book of Changes) --- Lü Liben --- Figurism --- Passion narratives --- Prohibition of Christianity --- Qing dynasty --- theology of religions --- intertextuality --- postliberal theology --- Chinese Christianity --- Chinese Islam --- Confucianism --- Shakespeare --- Haiguo Quyu --- Isaac Mason --- Ha Zhidao --- Missionary in China --- rhetoric Jesuits Sino-Western literary relations --- comparative literature --- translation history in China --- The Gospel --- Marxism --- Zhu Weizhi --- Jesus the Proletarian --- Life of Jesus --- Xian Stele --- Jingjiao Christianity --- Tang Dynasty --- Political Theology --- politics-religion relationship --- Jesuit Figurists --- Yijing --- sheng ren --- sage --- Christianity --- Confucianism --- Dao