Vassilios Paipais is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews, UK. He is the author of Political Ontology and International Political Thought: Voiding a Pluralist World (2017).

Chapter 1

Introduction: Religion or Theology? (re)introducing political theology into the study of world politics

Vassilios Paipais

PART I Metaphysics

Chapter 2

'Obligations written in the heart': Burke's primacy of association and the renewal of political theology

Adrian Pabst

Chapter 3

The Political Theology of Thomas Hobbes and the Theory of Interstate Society

William Bain

Chapter 4

A Matter of Faith: Derrida, Zizek, and The Fourth 'Overcoming of Gnosis'

Agata Bielik-Robson

Chapter 5

The Cosmology of Madhyamaka Buddhism and its World of Deep Relationalism

Shannon Brincat

PART II Genealogies

Chapter 6

Between Transcendence and Necessity: Eric Voegelin, Martin Wight and the crisis of modern international relations

Nicholas Rengger

Chapter 7

Political Theology and Sovereignty: Sayyid Qutb in Our Times

Mustapha Kamal Pasha

Chapter 8

The Nation, the Nations and the Third Nation: The political essence of early Christianity

György Geréby

Chapter 9

On a Stasis of Memory or Disrupting the Postliminium

Ilias Papagiannopoulos

PART III Political Theologies

Chapter 10

Total War and Limited Government: the German Catholic Debate at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

Michael Hollerich

Chapter 11

Love as a Practice of Peace: the political theologies of Tolstoy, Gandhi and King

Liane Hartnett

Chapter 12

Reading Kant in the Light of Political Theology

Sean Molloy

Chapter 13

Religiosity with/out Religion: Hans J. Morgenthau, Disenchantment and International Politics

John-Harmen Valk