From political theory to political theology : religious challenges and the prospects of democracy

From political theory to political theology : religious challenges and the prospects of democracy /

During the last two decades we have€witnessed what José Casanova has characterised as "religion going public". This has not been a trend exclusive to traditionally religious nations. Rather, it has been visible in as diverse environments as that of the construction of the new Russian polit...

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Other Authors: Singh, Aakash, Losonczi, Péter
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York, NY : Continuum International Pub., 2010
Series:Continuum resources in religion and political culture.
Subjects:
Religion and politics.
Democracy > Religious aspects.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Graham Ward and Michael Hoelzl
  • Editor's introduction
  • Political theory
  • Part I: Liberal accommodations to the religious challenge
  • Religion and liberalism : public reason, public sphere and cultural pluralism / Sebastiano Maffettone
  • Accommodating pluralism through public justification : moral vs. practical considerations / Eszter Kollár
  • Public reason and models of judgement / Daniele Santoro
  • Hannah Arendt and the problem of public religion / Gábor Gángó
  • Part II: Challenging the liberal secular paradigm from within
  • Cultural identity, religion, moral pluralism and the law / Herman De Dijn
  • Can freedom of religion replace the virtue of tolerance? / Peter Jonkers
  • Democracy and moral relativism in a post-secular world : reclaiming obligation / András Lánczi
  • From political theory to political theology
  • Part III: Radicalizing the challenges : recuperating religion
  • Religion, democracy and the empty shrine of pluralism : some reminders / Walter Van Herck
  • Religion after Auschwitz : Jonas, Metz, and the place of religion in our world today / Balázs M. Mezei
  • Politics without d'nouement, faith without guarantee : a critical appraisal of the politics of religion of the left and the right / Theo de Wit
  • Part IV: Political theology as political theory : prospects
  • Reinhold Niebuhr and the crisis of liberalism : Augustinian realism and democratic politics in the age of post-Enlightenment / Alexander Rosenthal
  • Genuine or elitist democracy? : Christianity and democracy in the thought of István Bibó and Dietrich Bonhoeffer / András Csepregi
  • The new political theology as political theory : Johann Baptist Metz on public suffering / Peter Losonczi.

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