Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order

Klappentext 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 even desirable--today. Contributors begin by revisiting the Enlightenment's restructuring of the West! examining its ongoing encounters with Protestant and Catholic Christianity! Judaism! Islam! and Hinduism. While acknowledging the necessity of the Enlightenment emphasis on toleration and peaceful religious coexistence! these scholars nevertheless have grave misgivings about the Enlightenment's spiritually thin secularism. The authors ultimately upend both the claim that the West's experience offers a ready-made template for the world to follow and the belief that the West's achievements are to be ignored! despised! or discarded.

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• Authors: John Owen Iv, John Owen, John M. Owen, John (Associate Professor Owen IV
• Assisted by: J. Owen (Editor), J. (Associate Professor Owen (Editor), J. Judd Owen (Editor), John Owen (Editor), John M. Owen (Editor), John Owen IV (Editor), John (Associate Professor Owen IV (Editor), John M. Owen IV (Editor), Owen J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2011
• EAN: 9780231150064
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15006-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Columbia Series on Religion and Politics; Columbia Series on Religion an; Columbia Series on Religion and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Religious issues & debates, Religious issues and debates