Michael J. Shapiro is a professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, USA. His books include The Political Sublime (2018), and Punctuations: How the Arts Think the Political (2019).

An Introductory Preface: Phenomenology and the Aesthetics of Political theology

Chapter 1: The Phenomenology of Belief: Media Technologies and Communities of Sense

Chapter 2: The Politics of Zealotry: Pier Paolo Pasolini's Saint Paul

Chapter 3: Ingmar Bergman: Theatricality versus Theology

Chapter 4: Philip Dick's Media-focused Religious Practices

Chapter 5: William James and Michel Foucault: The Will to Believe/the Will to truth.

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