The Corporate State: The Emergence of a Quasi-Religion
With this essay I venture into uncharted territory linking past and present fields of social sciences in order to solve a metaphysical puzzle. This relates to the nature of a subliminal person known as the corporation and how this artificial person was able to sponsor...
Corporatism
Similarities between the rise of Fascism in Italy and forays of US Corporations in the Capital, resulting in the creation of a new body politic. The subsequent advent of the consumer who has unceremoniously displaced the citizen as the pillar of Democracy.
“The Risen Lord: On Sovereignty and Tyranny”:
The post has been hacked and replace with the following paragraph that included a link to the original posting: The resurrection of the body of Christ is a central Christian creed. Most believe in the literal meaning of the word resurrection about an individual's...
Democracy & the Emergence of the Investor-State
Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters. President Grover Cleveland, State of the Union Address, December 3, 1888 We live in a corporatized world. Most of us...
Edward Snowden: Banned and Sovereign
Regardless of the covert encroachment of the Internet by the varied security States, cyberspace is nonetheless altering the jurico-political landscape of the world. Fugitive Edward Snowden's legal status personifies what Giorgio Agamben describes as a homo sacer – a...
The Risen Lord: On Sovereignty and Tyranny
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of Christianity's most central creed. It is also one that is subject to literal as well as spiritual interpretations. The contention between the two stems from a lexical ambiguity of the term “body”. A word that in respect to...
The Inauguration of the Washington National Monument
A step by step re-enactment of the building and inauguration of the giant obelisk. The erection of the Washington National Monument stands as a visible sign that celebrates the mythical foundation of its founding Father, revealing in the process how myth and politics blend-in together to generate an ideological consolidation of power.
A Discourse on Spirituality
Additional comments on the basic principles of the sacred, the profane and the wholly other that have been outlined elsewhere on this web site.
Religio and American Civil Religion
With this essay we propose a reassessment of American civil religion developed by Robert N. Bellah. The recent Religious Right’s political activism has somewhat changed the landscape of American civil religion, inaugurating a state of religious and political exceptionalism, shattering the idea of a cultural and political inclusiveness inherent in civil religion. As a result of the changes, a reevaluation was deemed appropriate. To do so we examine Roman religio as a case study of civil religion.
President Obama Inaugural Speech and American Civil Religion
This essay is a follow-up to “Religio and American Civil Religion” in response to President Obama’s inaugural speech. The contents will reveal a continuity with traditional themes delivered by past Presidents. The speech also includes some departures that show a novel development in respect to typical tenets of American civil religion.