Table of Contents

00 Religion, Democracy and the Politics of Fright: Editorial Introduction

By Jeffrey W Robbins (Lebanon Valley College, Le Moyne College)

01 Measure and Democracy in the Age of Politics of Fright

By Peyman Vahabzadeh (University of Victoria, Brock University)

02 Confronting the Politics of Evasion in an Age of Fright: Democracy, Religious Enthusiasm, and the State

By Matthew Abrahams (DePaul University)

03 ‘A Love as Strong as Death’: Reconstructing a Politics of Christian Love

By Mario Costa (Drew University)

04 The Politics of Fear and the Gospel of Life

By Daniel M Jr Bell (Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary)

05 The Religion of Fear: Conservative Evangelicals, Identity, and Antiliberal Pop

By Jason Bivins (North Carolina State University)

06 The Return of the Sacred Man: Politics, Fundamentalism and Fright

By William Little (University of Victoria)

07 A Roundtable on Globalization

By Gianni Vattimo (The University of Turin) ; Charles Taylor ; Richard Rorty

08 A Conversation with Michael Hardt

By Michael Hardt (Duke University) ; Creston Davis ; Christopher W Haley ; Jason Craig

09 Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz

By Gary Grieve-Carlson (Lebanon Valley College)

10 Globalization and Its Enemies

By Diane E Johnson (Lebanon Valley College)

11 Democracy and Tradition

By Ben Stahlberg

12 September 11: Religious Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences

By Paul J DaPonte (Boston College)

13 Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post-9/11 Powers and American Empire

By Hollis Phelps (Mercer University, Claremont Graduate University )

14 Theology and the Political: the New Debate

By Anthony Paul Smith (University of Nottingham)