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Critical Citizenship and Political Theology -Focused on William T. Cavanaugh’s Discussion-

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2020, (34), pp.370~403
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2020..34.015
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 25, 2020
  • Accepted : November 29, 2020
  • Published : November 30, 2020

Minseok Son 1

1서울과학기술대학교

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ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis recalls our attention on the role of the state, critical citizenship, and the relationship between religion and politics. This article examines the political theology presented by William Cavanaugh as part of his quest for critical citizenship and the relationship between religion and politics. He criticizes the ‘privatization of religion’ by affirming the church's public struggle against state violence. In addition, Cavanaugh castigates ‘privileging of religion’ by denouncing ‘distorted’ pastoral power to oppress others. He critically analyzes the abuse of religious persecution discourse resulting the marginalization of the struggle of those who are ostracized from mainstream discourse and society. Cavanaugh calls for facing the face of the suffering neighbors and calls for solidarity with those who have been victimized by power manipulation that operates politically, economically and culturally. As religion in the square is emerging as an important political agenda, examining Cavanaugh’s political theology can be a reference point for the public role of religion.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.