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This chapter introduces the collection by (1) explaining how the papers were first presented in a workshop with Simon Critchley held at the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2010, (2) describing how the thematic interconnection of politics and religion emerged as the topic of the workshop and (3) giving short summaries of each paper that relate it to this theme.

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    This paper was not originally presented at the workshop.

  2. 2.

    This paper was not the paper that Jill originally presented at the workshop, which was destined for publication elsewhere.

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Welchman, A. (2015). Introduction. In: Welchman, A. (eds) Politics of Religion/Religions of Politics. Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9448-0_1

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