Political theology and the new science of politics -- Political economy as theodicy and agnostics -- Sociology I : from Malebranche to Durkheim -- Sociology II : from Kant to Weber -- Policing the sublime : a critique of the sociology of religion -- For and against Hegel -- For and against Marx -- Founding the supernatural : political and liberation theology in the context of modern Catholic thought -- Science, power, and reality -- Ontological violence or the postmodern problematic -- Difference of virtue, virtue of difference -- The other city : theology as a social science.