The power of religion in the public sphere
By: Judith Butler ... [et al.] ; edited with an introduction by Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen ; with an afterword by Craig Calhoun
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780231156455; 9780231156462
Subjects: Religion and politics; Religion and state; Civil religion
Description: Contains essays and dialogues in which philosophers Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West discuss the role of religion in public life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The political: the rational meaning of a questionable inheritance of political theology / Jürgen Habermas; title: Why we need a radical redefinition of secularism / Charles Taylor; title: Dialogue: Jürgen Habermas and Charles Taylor; title: Is Judaism Zionism? / Judith Butler; title: Prophetic religion and the future of capitalist civilization / Cornel West; title: Dialogue: Judith Butler and Cornel West; title: Concluding discussion: Butler, Habermas, Taylor, West.