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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Owen, John M. (John Malloy), 1962- (Editor ), Owen, J. Judd (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2010]
Colección:Columbia series on religion and politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. The Enlightenment revisited : theoretical questions. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the new global order / John M Owen IV and J. Judd Owen
  • Religious violence or religious pluralism : the essential choice / William A. Galston
  • Religion, Enlightenment, and a common good / Jean Bethke Elshtain
  • How and why the West has lost confidence in its foundational political principles / Thomas L. Pangle
  • II. The Enlightenment, secularity, and the religions. The Enlightenment project, Spinoza, and the Jews / David Novak
  • Puritan sources of Enlightenment liberty / John Witte Jr.
  • India : the politics of religious reform and conflict / Pratap Bhanu Mehta
  • Reason and revelation in Islamic political ethics / Abdulaziz Sachedina
  • Islam, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy / Sohail H. Hashmi
  • The identity of the Christian Democratic Movement and theory of democracy / Roberto Papini
  • Concluding thoughts / John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen.