Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order

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John Owen IV (Associate Professor, University of Virginia) J. Owen (Associate Professor, Emory University)

Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order

John Owen IV (Associate Professor, University of Virginia), J. Owen (Associate Professor, Emory University)

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Columbia University Press
17 January 2011

Social & political philosophy; Comparative religion; Religious issues & debates

Series: Columbia Series on Religion and Politics

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.

Edited by: John Owen IV (Associate Professor University of Virginia), J. Owen (Associate Professor, Emory University)
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 397g
ISBN: 9780231150071
ISBN 10: 0231150075
Series: Columbia Series on Religion and Politics
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 17 January 2011
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Part 1. The Enlightenment Revisited: Theoretical Questions 1. Religion, the Enlightenment. and the New Global Order, by John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen 2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism: The Essential Choice, by William A. Galston 3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good, by Jean Bethke Elshtain 4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles, by Thomas L. Pangle Part 2. The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions 5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews, by David Novak 6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty, by John Witte Jr. 7. India: The Politics of Religious Reform and Conflict, by Pratap Bhanu Mehta 8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political Ethics, by Abdulaziz Sachedina 9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal Democracy, by Sohail H. Hashmi 10. The Identity of the Christian Democratic Movement and Theory of Democracy, by Roberto Papini 11. Concluding Thoughts, by John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen Contributors Index

John M. Owen IV is associate professor of politics and faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War and The Clash of Ideas in World Politics and lives with his wife and three children in Charlottesville, Virginia. J. Judd Owen is associate professor of political science and a senior fellow at the center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He is the author of Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism and is finishing a book on the Enlightenment's project of religious transformation. He lives with his wife and two children in Decatur, Georgia.