From political theory to political theology
Subtitle: religious challenges and the prospects of democracy
By: Edited by Aakash Singh and Péter Losonczi.
Contributors: Singh, Aakash.; Losonczi, Péter.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781441117205; 9781441187444
Subjects: Religion and politics; Democracy -- Religious aspects
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.