The Power and the Sacred: The impossible Goodbye?Between Political Theology and Economic Theology
by Geminello Preterossi
pp. 98-107 Issue 5 (3,1) – Janyary-June 2016 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: 1017450/160106
Abstract
What holds together the social order? This question recurs even in post-traditional conceptions of the social bond and, explicitly or implicitly, leads to the relationship between power and pre-political sources of the legitimacy. Secularization is not liberation from the religious. The fact that politics, with modernity, occupy the space of religion charges politics itself of a supplementary symbolic function. The economic theology is not a paradigm change: neither the obliteration of political theology and its replacement with a different model. The economic theology is a disguised political theology.