Religion and Radical Pluralism - Engaging Rawls and Gandhi

This book engages the perspective of public reason and the position of religious believers through a mutual confrontation of Rawlsian political liberalism and Gandhian ideas. By teasing out concords and discords between Rawls and Gandhi, Jeff Shawn Jose innovatively advances the debate about the role of religion in the public sphere.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Western Secularisation and Religious Pluralism
Chapter 2: Secularisation and Religious Diversity in India
Chapter 3: Rawls and Religion in the Public Sphere
Chapter 4: Gandhi and Religion in the Public Sphere
Chapter 5: A Gandhian Critique of Rawls
Chapter 6: A Rawlsian Critique of Gandhi
Conclusion: Towards a Prospective Framework of the Political and the Religious

About the author

Jeff Shawn Jose is assistant professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and director of the Centre for the Study of World Religions at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram.

Summary

This book engages the perspective of public reason and the position of religious believers through a mutual confrontation of Rawlsian political liberalism and Gandhian ideas. By teasing out concords and discords between Rawls and Gandhi, Jeff Shawn Jose innovatively advances the debate about the role of religion in the public sphere.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Shawn Jose
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781666920451
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-045-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Social & political philosophy, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Religion and Politics, Peace studies & conflict resolution