Explorations in Post-Secular Metaphysics [electronic resource] /
Bengtson, Josef.author.
This book explores the metaphysical assumptions that underlie different interpretations of the relationship between religion and the secular, faith and reason, and transcendence and immanence. It explores different answers to the question of how people of diverse religious and cultural identities can live together peacefully.
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Cover ; Half-Title ; Title; Copyrignts; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Between Scientism and Fundamentalism                                                           ; 2 Whose Religion, Which Secular?                                       ; 2.1 Post-secularism                          ; 2.2 Metaphysics                      ; 2.3 Difference and metaphysics                                     ; 3 Phenomenology and Overlapping Consensus                                                ; 3.1 Charles Taylor
3.2 Ontology and difference                                  3.3 Taylor's post-secularism in practice                                               ; 4 Analogy and Corporatist Pluralism                                          ; 4.1 John Milbank                       ; 4.2 Milbank's metaphysics                                ; 4.3 Milbank's post-secularism in practice                                                ; 5 Becoming and Rhizomatic Pluralism                                          ; 5.1 William Connolly
5.2 William Connolly's ontology                                      5.3 William Connolly's post-secularism in practice                                                         ; 6 Post-Secular Visions                             ; 6.1 Different accounts of being: univocity vs. analogy                                                             ; 6.2 Transcendence and immanence: an attempt at a typology                                                                ; 6.3 Practical implications                                 ; 6.4 Three post-secular visions
7 Conclusion                   7.1 Transcending the secular                                   ; 7.2 A metaphysical post-secularity                                         ; 7.3 Differing accounts of difference                                           ; Notes            ; Bibliography                   ; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book explores the metaphysical assumptions that underlie different interpretations of the relationship between religion and the secular, faith and reason, and transcendence and immanence. It explores different answers to the question of how people of diverse religious and cultural identities can live together peacefully.
Religion-Philosophy.
Metaphysics.
Political philosophy.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Philosophy of Religion.
Metaphysics.
Political Philosophy.
Social Philosophy.