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Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order / ed. by J. Owen, John Owen IV.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Columbia Series on Religion and PoliticsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231150071
  • 9780231526623
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 201.72 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.P7 R4385 2010
  • BL65.P7 R425 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Enlightenment Revisited -- 1. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order -- 2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism -- 3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good -- 4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles -- II. The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions -- 5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews -- 6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty -- 7. India -- 8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political Ethics -- 9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal Democracy -- 10. Religion and Politics -- 11. Concluding Thoughts -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Enlightenment Revisited -- 1. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order -- 2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism -- 3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good -- 4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles -- II. The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions -- 5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews -- 6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty -- 7. India -- 8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political Ethics -- 9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal Democracy -- 10. Religion and Politics -- 11. Concluding Thoughts -- Contributors -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

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