The Politics of the Soul Eric Voegelin on Religious Experience

The Politics of the Soul: Eric Voegelin on Religious Experience includes eight essays examining one of the most profound studies of religious experience to appear in the last century: that of the political philosopher Eric Voegelin. Voegelin is increasingly recognized as a political theorist of exceptional scope and erudition and the most important philosopher of his time since Toynbee, and his treatment of religious experience is a crucial part of his overall analysis of existence and history. This collection of essays by prominenet Voegelin scholars is the first book to explore the relevance of that analysis to the contemporary understanding of political theory, theology, history, and philosophy of consciousness, and as such it constitutes a significant contribution not only to Voegelin scholarship but to the current quest for theoretical foundations.

Michael Franz is associate professor and chair of the Department of Political Science at Loyola College, Maryland Glenn Hughes is associate professor of philosophy at St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas Stephen A. McKnight is professor of European intellectual and cultural history at the University of Florida in Gainesville Michael P. Morrissey is research assistant for the Institute of Reading Development in Novato, California William Petropulos has taught at the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science at the University of Munich where he is secretary of the Eric-Voegelin-Archiv-Gesellschaft e. V Geoffrey L. Price is the founder and current director of the Centre for Voegelin Studies at the University of Manchester, where he holds the position of senior lecturer in theological studies John J. Ranieri is assistant professor of philosophy at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey William M. Thompson is professor of theology at Duquesne University and currently is president of the Catholic Society of America