Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion - Between Public Reason and Pluralism

This textbook provides an advanced introduction to, and a critical appraisal of the major schools of political thought with a focus on the relationship between democracy and religion.

List of contents

Introduction: A Plea for Complexity 1. Political Liberalism, Public Reason, and Religion: John Rawls 2. Public Reason Contested: Religion, Citizenship, and Inclusion 3. Postsecularism, Translation, and Religion: Jürgen Habermas 4. Republicanism: Between Non-domination, the Common Good, and Civil Religion 5. Charles Taylor’s Hermeneutics of Modernity: Secularization, Recognition, and Inclusive Liberalism 6. Multiculturalism and its Critics: From Rise to Fall? 7. The Conundrum of Gender Equality and Religion: Between the Autonomy and the Capability Approach 8. Democracy and Postmodernism: Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo 9. Globalization and the Ambivalence of Religion

About the author

Camil Ungureanu is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Coordinator of the MA in Political Philosophy at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. He has published articles in several journals and co-edited various books on the topics of contemporary political philosophy, art, religion, and politics.
Paolo Monti is Lecturer at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. He has published and edited several works on the philosophy of social practices, the ethics of democratic citizenship, and the role of religion in the public sphere.

Summary

This textbook provides an advanced introduction to, and a critical appraisal of the major schools of political thought with a focus on the relationship between democracy and religion.

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Monti, Camil Ungureanu, Camil Monti Ungureanu, Ungureanu Camil
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2017
• EAN: 9780415552189
• ISBN: 978-0-415-55218-9
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, Social & political philosophy, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Religion and Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State