From political theory to political theology
Subtitle: religious challenges and the prospects of democracy
By: edited by Péter Losonczi and Aakash Singh
Series: Continuum resources in religion and political culture; Continuum resources in religion and political culture
Publisher: Continuum International Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9781441117205; 9781441187444
Description: "During the last two decades we have witnessed what Jos  Casanova has characterised as "religion going public". This has not been a trend exclusive to traditionally religious nations. Rather, it has been visible in as diverse environments as that of the construction of the new Russian political identity or in the "post-9/11" political discourses of the USA. Surprisingly, important religious manifestations also influenced the political discourses in Britain and, more recently, in France. Partly as a consequence of these phenomena an intensive debate is now evolving about the compatibility of the neutrality of liberal democracy in relation to religiously motivated opinions in public discourses, and the conditions under which such religiously driven contributions could viably "go public". This book offers a collection of essays on Religion and Democracy which critically discusses the most important questions that characterize these debates at the points of their intersection within political theory, political theology and the philosophy of religion, and considers both the challenges and the prospects of this new era which, following Habermas, one may call post-secular."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Graham Ward and Michael Hoelzl; title: Editor's introduction; title: Political theory; title: Part I: Liberal accommodations to the religious challenge; title: Religion and liberalism : public reason, public sphere and cultural pluralism / Sebastiano Maffettone; title: Accommodating pluralism through public justification : moral vs. practical considerations / Eszter Kollár; title: Public reason and models of judgement / Daniele Santoro; title: Hannah Arendt and the problem of public religion / Gábor Gángó; title: Part II: Challenging the liberal secular paradigm from within; title: Cultural identity, religion, moral pluralism and the law / Herman De Dijn; title: Can freedom of religion replace the virtue of tolerance? / Peter Jonkers; title: Democracy and moral relativism in a post-secular world : reclaiming obligation / András Lánczi; title: From political theory to political theology; title: Part III: Radicalizing the challenges : recuperating religion; title: Religion, democracy and the empty shrine of pluralism : some reminders / Walter Van Herck; title: Religion after Auschwitz : Jonas, Metz, and the place of religion in our world today / Balázs M. Mezei; title: Politics without d'nouement, faith without guarantee : a critical appraisal of the politics of religion of the left and the right / Theo de Wit; title: Part IV: Political theology as political theory : prospects; title: Reinhold Niebuhr and the crisis of liberalism : Augustinian realism and democratic politics in the age of post-Enlightenment / Alexander Rosenthal; title: Genuine or elitist democracy? : Christianity and democracy in the thought of István Bibó and Dietrich Bonhoeffer / András Csepregi; title: The new political theology as political theory : Johann Baptist Metz on public suffering / Peter Losonczi.