Religion in Public: Locke's Political Theology: Cultural Memory in the Present

This audiobook challenges the conventional wisdom on John Locke's theory of toleration, arguing that he secularizes religion, making it worldly, public, and political.

By reconstructing religion as persuasion, speech, and fashion, Locke insists on a consensus that human rights are sacred insofar as humans are the creatures, and thus, the property of God.

The book captures the range of anxieties and conflicts attending religion's secularization, including denunciations of promiscuous bodies freed from patriarchal religious and political formations, correlations between secular religion and colonialist education and conversion efforts, and condemnations of the coercive and injurious force of unrestricted religious speech.

This audiobook is a must-listen for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of religion's secularization and its implications for diverse citizenship.