Profanation as a method of deactivation of political theology

Abstract

The article analyzes J. Agamben’s idea that profanation is a practice of deactivating the political theology. The following questions are discussed: how the act of profanation works in the culture, what functions it performs, if these functions could be changed in the current situation, and how effective the act of profanation is. It is hypothesized that the act of profanation is less homogeneous than Agamben shows. It can be played out in three different scenarios producing different effects that rather support sacral orders than deactivate them.

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