Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-15006-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: Columbia Series on Religion and Politics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Iv, John Owen

Owen IV, John

Owen, J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsPart 1 The Enlightenment Revisited: Theoretical Questions1. Religion, the Enlightenment. and the New Global OrderJohn M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism: The Essential ChoiceWilliam A. Galston3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common GoodJean Bethke Elshtain4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political PrinciplesThomas L. PanglePart 2 The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the JewsDavid Novak6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment LibertyJohn Witte Jr.7. India: The Politics of Religious Reform and ConflictPratap Bhanu Mehta8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political EthicsAbdulaziz Sachedina9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal DemocracySohail H. Hashmi10. The Identity of the Christian Democratic Movement and Theory of DemocracyRoberto Papini11. Concluding ThoughtsJohn M. Owen IV and J. Judd OwenContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

John M. Owen IV is associate professor of politics and faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War and The Clash of Ideas in World Politics and lives with his wife and three children in Charlottesville, Virginia.J. Judd Owen is associate professor of political science and a senior fellow at the center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He is the author of Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism and is finishing a book on the Enlightenment's project of religious transformation. He lives with his wife and two children in Decatur, Georgia.