Babie / Sarre Religion Matters

The Contemporary Relevance of Religion
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-981-15-2489-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 345 Seiten

This book draws together leaders in science, the health sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences to investigate the role of religion, its meaning and relevance, for their area of specialization. It provides a much-needed fresh perspective on the way in which religion operates within the modern, neo-liberal world.  The book approaches the topic by way of a critical engagement between religion, broadly defined, and the individual disciplines in which each of the contributors is expert. Rather than simply taking the dogmatic position that religion offers something to every possible discipline, each of the chapters in this collection addresses the question: is there something that religion can offer to the discipline in question? That is the value of the book - it takes a truly critical stance on the place of religion in contemporary society.

Paul Babie is Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Religion Research Project of the Research Unit for the Study of Society, Ethics, and Law (RUSSEL) (which he founded in 2007) at The University of Adelaide (Australia). He is a barrister and solicitor (inactive) of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta (Canada), and an associate member of the Law Society of South Australia. His primary research interests include critical theory, private law theory, property theory, and liberation theology and religious legal systems. He has published and spoken extensively in these fields and he teaches property law, property theory, law and religion, water law, and Roman law.Rick Sarre is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of South Australia (UniSA), where he teaches Media Law, Sports Law, Business Law and Criminology. He is currently President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology, and serves on the board of directors of the International Police Executive Symposium. Professor Sarre has taught in the Business Division at Graceland University (Iowa, USA), at the Department of Law at Umeå University (Sweden), and with UniSA business programs twinned with Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong). He has been the Chair of academic board at the University of South Australia since January 2011.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Babie, Paul

Sarre, Rick

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Foreword;6
2;Acknowledgements;9
3;Contents;11
4;Contributors;13
5;List of Figures;15
6;1 Why Religion Matters, or, Does It Matter?;16
7;I Sciences;23
8;2 Immortal Beings Without Soul or Conscience: Toward a Corporate and an AI Ethic;24
8.1;2.1 Introduction;24
8.2;2.2 Human Rights and Conscience in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: ‘Brave New World’ or a Bad Case of Déjà Vu?;28
8.2.1;2.2.1 Dire Predictions and AI, AGI, and Superintelligence;28
8.2.2;2.2.2 Conscience, Dignity, Human Rights, and Machines;30
8.3;2.3 The ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’ Trope;31
8.4;2.4 A History of the Large Corporation as Monster;32
8.4.1;2.4.1 The Monstrous Beginnings of the Supranational Corporation;33
8.4.2;2.4.2 The Continuation of the Monstrous Supranational Corporate Legacy;35
8.4.3;2.4.3 Attempts to Rehabilitate the Corporate Monster;39
8.4.4;2.4.4 Attempt to Humanise the Corporate Monster: Attribution of Conscience;41
8.5;2.5 Lessons for Machine Intelligence;43
8.6;2.6 Conclusion;46
8.7;References;47
9;3 Creation Myths: A Deeper Truth for Today’s Religionists;54
9.1;3.1 Cosmology;55
9.2;3.2 Biology;56
9.3;3.3 Human Culture;58
9.4;3.4 Religion;59
9.5;3.5 Actuation;59
9.6;3.6 Myth;60
9.7;3.7 Religious Myth;61
9.8;3.8 Creation Stories;62
9.9;3.9 Conclusion;64
9.10;References;65
10;II Health Sciences;66
11;4 A Court of Morals, a Court of Law, or a Little Bit of Both?;67
11.1;4.1 Introduction;68
11.2;4.2 The Conjoined Twins Case: Can We End One Life to Save Another?;69
11.2.1;4.2.1 Background: The Facts and Issues of re A;69
11.2.2;4.2.2 Archbishop of Westminster’s Submission;71
11.3;4.3 Five Salient Principles;72
11.3.1;4.3.1 Human Life Is Sacred and Inviolable;72
11.3.2;4.3.2 Bodily Integrity Should not Be Invaded When that Can Confer no Benefit;73
11.3.3;4.3.3 The Duty to Preserve One Persons’ Life Cannot Without Grave Injustice Be Effected by a Lethal Assault on Another;75
11.3.4;4.3.4 There Is no Duty on Doctors to Resort to Extraordinary Means in Order to Preserve Life;76
11.3.5;4.3.5 The Rights of a Parent Should Be Overridden Only When They Were Clearly Contrary to What Is Strictly Owing to Their Children;76
11.4;4.4 Conclusion;77
11.5;References;78
12;III Social Sciences;79
13;5 Making Religion Relevant in the World of Politics: A Personal Reflection;80
13.1;5.1 Introduction;80
13.2;5.2 The Death Penalty;82
13.3;5.3 The Civil Rights Movement;83
13.4;5.4 Labor Unions;87
13.5;5.5 The Vietnam War;88
13.6;5.6 Women’s Rights;88
13.7;5.7 Women in the Resurrection Narratives;90
13.8;5.8 The Rights of LGBT Persons;91
13.9;5.9 President Donald J. Trump;92
13.10;5.10 Conclusion;94
13.11;References;95
14;6 Religious Education, Radicalisation and Neoliberal Governmentalities;96
14.1;6.1 Introduction;96
14.2;6.2 Defining Religion;97
14.3;6.3 Religious Education and Ideology;98
14.4;6.4 Religion, Schools and State-Funding;100
14.5;6.5 Religious Schooling, Governmentality and Neoliberalism;102
14.6;6.6 Neoliberal Governmentalities and Violent Religious Extremism;106
14.7;6.7 Conclusion: From Radicalisation to Radical Religion and Ethics;108
14.8;References;109
15;7 Restorative Justice;112
15.1;7.1 Why “Restorative” Justice?;114
15.2;7.2 Expanding Field of Application;117
15.3;7.3 Religious Roots;121
15.4;7.4 A Curious Legacy;123
15.5;7.5 Conclusion;126
15.6;References;127
16;8 The Contemporary Relevance of Religion to Criminological Sciences;129
16.1;8.1 How Criminology and Religion Intersect;129
16.2;8.2 Acceptance of Conjecture as a Path to Rapprochement;131
16.3;8.3 Common Ground: Progressive Christianity and Critical Criminology;132
16.4;8.4 Bringing Religion to the Criminological Table;133
16.4.1;8.4.1 Restorative Justice;133
16.4.2;8.4.2 Feminism;134
16.4.3;8.4.3 Juvenile Justice;135
16.4.4;8.4.4 Human Motivation;136
16.4.5;8.4.5 Moral Values;137
16.4.6;8.4.6 Capital Punishment;138
16.4.7;8.4.7 Prison Ministries;139
16.5;8.5 Where to from Here?;139
16.6;8.6 Conclusion;141
16.7;References;141
17;9 Shaking the Invisible Hand: Religion and Individualism as Economic Foundations;144
17.1;9.1 The Price of Religion;145
17.2;9.2 The Economics of Everything;146
17.3;9.3 Methodological Individualism and Holism;147
17.4;9.4 The Individual in the Social Setting;149
17.5;9.5 Evolution for Grouping or Group Evolution or Neither?;150
17.6;9.6 Are Religions Prosocial?;152
17.7;9.7 Thomas Hobbes and Adam Smith: God, Government and the Individual;154
17.8;9.8 The Individual, the Economy and the Invisible Hand;156
17.9;9.9 From Birthright to Individual Right;159
17.10;9.10 The Thread of Individualism;164
17.11;References;167
18;10 Religion and Security in Today’s Neo-liberal World;169
18.1;10.1 Introduction;169
18.2;10.2 War, Conquest, Imperialism, and Globalisation: Westphalia to Trump;172
18.3;10.3 (Mis)Interpreting Religion;174
18.3.1;10.3.1 Defining, Describing, and Discussing Religion and Secularism;175
18.3.2;10.3.2 Defining, Describing, and Deliberating Security;177
18.3.3;10.3.3 (Mis)Understanding the Gradations of Salafism;180
18.4;10.4 Discussion;182
18.5;10.5 Conclusion;184
18.6;References;185
19;IV Humanities;188
20;11 Une Danse Bizarre: The Contest of Theos-Logos and Socius-Logos in the Twenty First Century Public Square;189
20.1;11.1 Theos-Logos, Socius-Logos and Faith in the Public Square;190
20.2;11.2 Three Propositions for the Relationship of Theos-Logos and Socius-Logos;191
20.3;11.3 The Changing Nature of the Individual in the Logos;194
20.4;11.4 Elements of Interaction;196
20.4.1;11.4.1 Theocracy … More or Less;196
20.4.2;11.4.2 Narrative Appropriation;198
20.4.3;11.4.3 Concept Change;199
20.4.4;11.4.4 Transience Versus Transformation;200
20.5;11.5 Danse Bizarre;201
20.6;11.6 Conclusion;205
20.7;References;205
21;12 The Contemporary Relevance of Religion in the Public Square;207
21.1;References;221
22;13 Revivalistics: Language Reclamation, Spirituality and Wellbeing;223
22.1;13.1 Introduction;223
22.2;13.2 Revivalistics;224
22.3;13.3 Why Should We Invest Time and Money in Reclaiming ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Languages?;226
22.3.1;13.3.1 Ethical Reasons;226
22.3.2;13.3.2 Aesthetic Reasons;227
22.3.3;13.3.3 Utilitarian Benefits;228
22.4;13.4 Language Loss and Youth Suicide: Canada;229
22.5;13.5 Language Revival and Improved Wellbeing: Australia and Beyond;229
22.6;References;233
23;14 Law, Religion, and Theology: A Relationship That Matters;236
23.1;14.1 Introduction;236
23.2;14.2 Why Study the Relationship?;237
23.3;14.3 ‘Religion’ and ‘Theology’;240
23.4;14.4 Two Methodological Approaches;242
23.5;14.5 Concluding Reflections;245
23.6;References;246
24;15 Religion as Conceptual Scaffolding for Architecture;249
24.1;15.1 Introduction;249
24.2;15.2 Community, Place and Identity;251
24.3;15.3 Religion, Mobility and Construction;254
24.4;15.4 Pilgrimage, Narratives and Science;257
24.5;15.5 Otherness, Discovery, and Self;259
24.6;15.6 Conclusion;263
24.7;References;264
25;16 Conscientious Objection as a Spiritual Path;266
25.1;16.1 The Spirit of Conscientious Objection;266
25.2;16.2 Conscientious Objectors in the Context of World War I (WWI);268
25.3;16.3 How Conscientious Objectors Were Silenced;269
25.4;16.4 Conscientious Objectors Challenged Nationalism;270
25.5;16.5 Conscientious Objectors Challenged the Myth of Redemptive Violence;271
25.6;16.6 Conscientious Objectors Suffered in World War I;272
25.7;16.7 Disobedience to Authority and the Importance of Existentialism;273
25.8;16.8 Conscientious Objectors Participated in a Bigger Picture of Resistance in WWI;274
25.8.1;16.8.1 Numbers of Non-cooperators and Conscientious Objectors;274
25.8.2;16.8.2 Writers and Poets;275
25.8.3;16.8.3 Women;276
25.8.4;16.8.4 Reluctant Soldiers;276
25.8.5;16.8.5 Socialists;276
25.9;16.9 Conscientious Objectors Were Diverse;277
25.10;16.10 Conscientious Objectors and Religious Leaders in WWI;278
25.11;16.11 Conclusion;278
25.12;References;279
26;17 Faiths and Feminisms;282
26.1;17.1 In Sickness and in Health;283
26.2;17.2 To Have and to Hold;286
26.3;17.3 For Richer or Poorer;287
26.4;17.4 For Better or Worse;290
26.5;17.5 From This Day Forward, as Long as We Both Shall Live;294
26.6;References;296
27;18 The Right Thing to Do: Australian Religion and the 2017 Same-Sex Marriage Debate;298
27.1;18.1 Introduction;298
27.2;18.2 The Right Thing to Do;300
27.3;18.3 Religion in Australia;301
27.4;18.4 The ‘Legalisation of Sin’;304
27.5;18.5 ‘It’s OK to Vote No’;306
27.6;18.6 Getting to Yes;308
27.7;18.7 Religion and the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey;311
27.8;18.8 Conclusion;312
27.9;References;312
28;19 Life or Death? A Politico-philosophical Reflection on Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism;315
28.1;19.1 Introduction: The International Political Climate;315
28.2;19.2 Political Extremism and Fundamentalism;316
28.3;19.3 Western Neo-liberalism;319
28.4;19.4 A Christian-Jewish Response;319
28.5;19.5 Ascetical Practices;321
28.5.1;19.5.1 Humility;321
28.5.2;19.5.2 Openness for Dialogue;321
28.5.3;19.5.3 Generosity;322
28.6;19.6 Conclusion;323
28.7;References;323
29;20 Contemporary Theology as Dialogue: The Evolution of Modern Theology;325
29.1;20.1 Introduction, or Is Theology Still a Thing?;325
29.2;20.2 From Idealism to Crisis, or Faith and Reason’s Rude Awakening;327
29.2.1;20.2.1 Idealism;328
29.2.2;20.2.2 Liberal Theology;329
29.2.3;20.2.3 Two World Wars and the Theology of Crisis;330
29.2.4;20.2.4 Existentialism and Theology;332
29.3;20.3 Contemporary Theology as Dialogue, or Theology? Try Theologies;336
29.3.1;20.3.1 Feminist Theologies;337
29.3.2;20.3.2 Liberation Theologies;338
29.3.3;20.3.3 Womanist Theology;340
29.3.4;20.3.4 Latina Feminist Theology;341
29.3.5;20.3.5 Asian and Queer Theologies;342
29.4;20.4 Conclusion, or Is There Any Hope for Theology?;342
29.5;References;343