Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order / / ed. by J. Owen, John Owen IV.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Elshtain, Jean Bethke,; Galston, William A.,; Hashmi, Sohail H.,; Mehta, Pratap Bhanu,; Novak, David,; Owen, J. Judd,; Owen, John M.,; Pangle, Thomas L.,; Papini, Roberto,; Sachedina, Abdulaziz,; Witte, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Owen IV, John,; Owen, J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Columbia Series on Religion and Politics
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Enlightenment Revisited -- 1. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order -- 2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism -- 3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good -- 4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles -- II. The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions -- 5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews -- 6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty -- 7. India -- 8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political Ethics -- 9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal Democracy -- 10. Religion and Politics -- 11. Concluding Thoughts -- Contributors -- Index