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In this culmination of his widely read and highly acclaimed Cultural Liturgies project, James K. A. Smith examines politics through the lens of liturgy. What if, he asks, citizens are not only thinkers or believers but also lovers? Smith explores how our analysis of political institutions would look different if we viewed them as incubators of love-shaping practices—not merely governing us but...

fact that Christians can have a wealth of knowledge about Christianity and yet live as practical naturalists, giving themselves over to ways of life that are, in some respects, the very antithesis of shalom? If the core goal of my project has been to argue that our loves are rightly ordered through the “habitation of the Spirit” that is Christian worship, this is in no small part a response to the way we are co-opted by rival stories and visions of the good life. In short, the emphasis on counter-formation
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