Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Antinomian Sacred as a Political Category: Toward a Theory of Religion as Sovereignty 9
6. 2. The Disenchantment of Charisma: The Theological Origins of Secular Polity 37
7. 3. The Ambivalence of the Sovereign Ban: The Homo Sacer and the Biblical Herem 74
8. 4. Sacrifice, or the Religious Mode of Production 98
9. 5. States of Nature: The Jubilee and the Social Contract 126
10. 6. No Deposit, No Return: Religious Rejections of Exchange 156
11. Conclusion: Exit Signs 184
12. Notes 189
13. Bibliography 243
14. Index 265