From Political Theory to Political Theology Religious Challenges and the Prospects of Democracy

by Losonczi, Péter; Singh, Aakash

• ISBN13: 9781441187444
• ISBN10: 1441187448
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-20
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Invaluable resource to the theory of democracy and the political problem it poses in relation to the new visibility of religion.

Author Biography

Pter Losonczi is Associate Professor at the Institute for Intercultural Studies at the University of West Hungary (Szombathely), Hungary. AAkash Singh is Research Professor at the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics at LUISS University, Rome, Italy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Editor's Introduction	p. xv
Political Theory
Liberal Accommodations to the Religious Challenge
Religion and Liberalism: Public Reason, Public Sphere and Cultural Pluralism	p. 5
Accommodating Pluralism through Public Justification: Moral vs. Practical Considerations	p. 22
Public Reason and Models of Judgement	p. 31
Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Public Religion	p. 47
Challenging the Liberal Secular Paradigm from Within
Cultural Identity, Religion, Moral Pluralism and the Law	p. 61
Can Freedom of Religion Replace the Virtue of Tolerance?	p. 73
Democracy and Moral Relativism in a Post-secular World: Reclaiming Obligation	p. 85
From Political Theory to Political Theology
Radicalizing the Challenges: Recuperating Religion
Religion, Democracy and the Empty Shrine of Pluralism-Some Reminders	p. 101
Religion after Auschwitz: Jonas, Metz, and the Place of Religion in our World Today	p. 111
Politics without Dénouement, Faith without Guarantee: A Critical Appraisal of the Politics of Religion of the Left and the Right	p. 122
Political Theology as Political Theory-Prospects
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Crisis of Liberalism: Augustinian Realism and Democratic Politics in the Post-Enlightenment	p. 139
Genuine or Elitist Democracy? Christianity and Democracy in the Thought of István Bibó and Dietrich Bonhoeffer	p. 152
The New Political Theology as Political Theory: Johann Baptist Metz on Public Suffering	p. 162
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 197
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