TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owen,John M.
AU  - Owen,J.Judd
TI  - Religion, the enlightenment, and the new global order
T2  - Columbia series on religion and politics
SN  - 9780231526623
AV  - BL65.P7 R4385 2010eb
U1  - 201/.72 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Islam
KW  - Religion et politique
KW  - Siècle des Lumières
KW  - aat
KW  - Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT
KW  - Gaia & Earth Energies
KW  - Christianity
KW  - General
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; I. The Enlightenment revisited : theoretical questions. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the new global order / John M Owen IV and J. Judd Owen -- Religious violence or religious pluralism : the essential choice / William A. Galston -- Religion, Enlightenment, and a common good / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- How and why the West has lost confidence in its foundational political principles / Thomas L. Pangle -- II. The Enlightenment, secularity, and the religions. The Enlightenment project, Spinoza, and the Jews / David Novak -- Puritan sources of Enlightenment liberty / John Witte Jr. -- India : the politics of religious reform and conflict / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Reason and revelation in Islamic political ethics / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Islam, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy / Sohail H. Hashmi -- The identity of the Christian Democratic Movement and theory of democracy / Roberto Papini -- Concluding thoughts / John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen
N2  - Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a more religiously moderate path. In nine original essays, leading scholars ask whether exporting the Enlightenment solution is possible, or even desirable, today. Contributors begin by revisiting the Enlightenment's restructuring of the West, examining its ongoing encounters with Protestant and Catholic Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism. While acknowledging the necessity of the Enlightenment emphasis on toleration and peaceful religious coexistence, these scholars nevertheless have grave misgivings about the Enlightenment's spiritually thin secularism. The authors ultimately upend both the claim that the West's experience offers a ready-made template for the world to follow and the belief that the West's achievements are to be ignored, despised, or discarded
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