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Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order /

Largely due to the cultural and political shift of the Enlightenment, Western societies in the eighteenth century emerged from sectarian conflict and embraced a more religiously moderate path. In nine original essays, leading scholars ask whether exporting the Enlightenment solution is possible—or e...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Elshtain, Jean Bethke (Contribuidor), Galston, William A. (Contribuidor), Hashmi, Sohail H. (Contribuidor), Mehta, Pratap Bhanu (Contribuidor), Novak, David (Contribuidor), Owen IV, John (Editor ), Owen, J. Judd (Contribuidor), Owen, J. (Editor ), Owen, John M. (Contribuidor), Pangle, Thomas L. (Contribuidor), Papini, Roberto (Contribuidor), Sachedina, Abdulaziz (Contribuidor), Witte, John (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011]
Colección:Columbia Series on Religion and Politics
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. The Enlightenment Revisited
  • 1. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order
  • 2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism
  • 3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good
  • 4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles
  • II. The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions
  • 5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews
  • 6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty
  • 7. India
  • 8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political Ethics
  • 9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal Democracy
  • 10. Religion and Politics
  • 11. Concluding Thoughts
  • Contributors
  • Index