Politics and Religion in the New Century : Philosophical Reflections.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quadrio, Philip Andrew.

Contributor:

Besseling, Carrol.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics.

Religion and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (431 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Politics and Religion in the New Century

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2009.

Summary:

Politics and Religion in the New Century contains a collection of philosophical reflections on the intersection of religion and the political in contemporary social, political and intellectual life.

Contents:

Intro

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

1 Gods of the state: atheism, Enlightenment and barbarity

2 Philosophy of religion's political character: myths of tolerance and the re-sanctification of politics

3 Liberalism, the ethics of citizenship and religious belief

4 Respecting an establishment of religion

5 The political identity of the Christian church reconsidered: some resources from the history of political theology

6 Religious truth in a globalising world: new challenges to philosophy of religion

7 A place for forgiveness? A Derridean response to terrorism

8 In a time of terror: globalisation, transformation, ethics and the Enlightenment

9 Bergson's myth-making faculty: political fabulation and its two religious sources

10 Is a radical ecopolitics secular and how might it be?

11 On praxis for faith and understanding

12 Metaphilosophical reflections on theism and atheism in the current debate

13 Parochialism in a pluralistic context: a time for critical self-reflection on philosophy of religion.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781743328194

1743328192

OCLC:

1266907913