Contents:
Introduction: The Terms and Conditions of Political Life – Religion and Postsecular Politics – Theological Politics and the Ecclesial-Turn – Summary of Aims and Methodology
1. Faith-Based Organizations and the Emerging Shape of Church-State Relations: Introduction – “Working Together”: The Shaping of Relations Between the State and Religious Groups in a Multi-Faith Society – Social Cohesion, Social Capital, and the “Salvation” of Civil Society – Liberalism and the Continuing Requirements of Public Reason – Theological Politics and the Question of What Constitutes Faithful Witness – Ecclesiology and the Political Mission of the Church
2. Local: Augustine, Alinsky, and the Politics of the Common Good: Introduction – The Alinsky Approach: The Work of Broad-Based Community Organizing – Eschatology, Politics, and the Mutual Ground of the Saeculum – Christian Realism Redivivus? – A Thomistic Democratic Politics? – Reweaving Civil Society – Politics without Piety Is Pitiless; Piety without Politics Is Pitiful
3. National: Christian Cosmopolitanism, Refugees, and the Politics of Proximity: Introduction – Theological Politics and the Liberal Democratic – Response to Refugees – Refugees as Bare Life – Bare Life and the Limits of Humanitarianism – Hallowing Bare Life: A Doxological Response – Hallowed Be Thy Name – Sanctuary: The Practice of Hallowing Bare Life
4. Global: Consumerism, Fair Trade, and the Politics of Ordinary Time: Introduction – Defining Political Consumerism – Consumerism and the Formation of Desire – Political Consumerism as Apprenticeship in the Virtues – Political Consumerism as Neighbor Love – Fair Trade as Contradiction – Fair Trade, Globalization and the Emergence of Political Consumerism – Ordinary Politics and the Peace of Babylon
Conclusion: Toward a Politics of Hospitality and a Theology of Politics

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:
Introduction: The Terms and Conditions of Political Life – Religion and Postsecular Politics – Theological Politics and the Ecclesial-Turn – Summary of Aims and Methodology--
1. Faith-Based Organizations and the Emerging Shape of Church-State Relations: Introduction – “Working Together”: The Shaping of Relations Between the State and Religious Groups in a Multi-Faith Society – Social Cohesion, Social Capital, and the “Salvation” of Civil Society – Liberalism and the Continuing Requirements of Public Reason – Theological Politics and the Question of What Constitutes Faithful Witness – Ecclesiology and the Political Mission of the Church --
2. Local: Augustine, Alinsky, and the Politics of the Common Good: Introduction – The Alinsky Approach: The Work of Broad-Based Community Organizing – Eschatology, Politics, and the Mutual Ground of the Saeculum – Christian Realism Redivivus? – A Thomistic Democratic Politics? – Reweaving Civil Society – Politics without Piety Is Pitiless; Piety without Politics Is Pitiful--
3. National: Christian Cosmopolitanism, Refugees, and the Politics of Proximity: Introduction – Theological Politics and the Liberal Democratic – Response to Refugees – Refugees as Bare Life – Bare Life and the Limits of Humanitarianism – Hallowing Bare Life: A Doxological Response – Hallowed Be Thy Name – Sanctuary: The Practice of Hallowing Bare Life--
4. Global: Consumerism, Fair Trade, and the Politics of Ordinary Time: Introduction – Defining Political Consumerism – Consumerism and the Formation of Desire – Political Consumerism as Apprenticeship in the Virtues – Political Consumerism as Neighbor Love – Fair Trade as Contradiction – Fair Trade, Globalization and the Emergence of Political Consumerism – Ordinary Politics and the Peace of Babylon--
Conclusion: Toward a Politics of Hospitality and a Theology of Politics--