Faith in democracy
Subtitle: justice, politics and transcedence
By: Mahmoud Masaeli, Nikolaos Asproulis, Rico Sneller, Timo Slootweg (eds.).
Publisher: Gompel&Svacina
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Oud-Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9789463711890
Subjects: Democracy; Religious aspects; Religion and politics; Political science
Description: "This book explores the spiritual potential of faith, mysticism and transcendence in answer to the dangers of a mythologised state and the sacro-sanctification of (liberal) democracy and its rule of law. It searches for a curative for the pathological transformation of these institutions into--so called--political religions. Along this line, it explores the importance of spirituality and transcendence for political legitimacy, democratic participation and international cooperation, law and politics. There being no general agreed-upon definition of 'spirituality', the authors examine what may be seen as 'spiritual' dimensions of the political. These dimensions have in common a focus on transcendence as a vanishing point of rationality and rational justification. This vanishing point may become manifest, for example, in a primordial requisite of becoming an individual person; in responding--in freedom--to the call of theocracy; in the phenomenon of prophecy or political wisdom; in the remaining shards of formerly all-pervasive religious institutions; in tenacious hope for a democracy-to-come; in the courageous resilience and resistance of citizens of 'non-' or 'un-democratic' states; etc."--Page 4 of back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.