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Using the theological work of Karl Barth as a resource for present-day inquiry, the contributors in this volume discuss the complex interconnections between the religious and the political designated by the term theo-politics. Speaking from various political and cultural contexts (Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China) and different disciplinary perspectives (Protestant Theology, Political Sciences, and Sociology), the contributors address contemporary challenges in relating the religious and the political in Western and Asian societies. Topics analyzed include the impact of diverse cultural backgrounds on given theo-political arrangements, theological assessments of political power, the political significance of individual and communal Christian existence and the place of Christian communities in civil societies. In their nuanced discussions of these topics, the contributors neither advocate for a privatized, apolitical understanding of the Christian faith nor for a religious politics seeking to overcome modern processes of differentiation and secularization. Critically engaging Barth's theology, they examine the Christian responsibility in and for the political sphere and reflect on the practice of such responsibility in Western and Asian contexts.
Contents
Part One
Christianity, Politics, and Culture: A Complex Relation in Western and Asian Contexts
1. Religion, Politics, and Sino-Christian Theology
Chloë Starr
2. Yes! Intercultural Existence Today
Volker Küster
3. Recent Male Circumcision Controversies, Barth, and Infant Baptism
Grace Y. Kao
4. Caesarean Section between High-Tech Medicine and a Theology of Birth: Developing an "Ethics of the Middle Range"
Martin Wendte
5. The Ecclesiological Implications of the Political Attitude of the Chinese Authority toward Christianity
Kim-kwong Chan
6. The Power of the Religio-Poietic Complex in Politics: Karl Barth's Strategies against the Nation Becoming Religiously Charged
Günter Thomas
Part Two
Legitimacy and Sovereignty: Political Power in Theological Perspective
7. Constitutional Theology: Karl Barth and Carl Schmitt on Legitimacy and the Rule of Law
Clifford B. Anderson
8. A Tale of Two Sovereignties: Karl Barth and Carl Schmitt in Dialogue
Devin Singh
9. The Political



