The force of history: religion beyond the state

• In Event: Nature and God in the Public Sphere: Religion, Cosmology, and Polity

Brief Overview

Revisiting the so called ‘heretical’ writing and political philosophy and theology of the English Civil War opens an account of political community that works extra-legally, appealing to an authority above the state and beyond the nation.

Author

• Rowan Powell, University of California, Santa Cruz