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Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order

By John M. Owen IV , J. Judd Owen

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
978-0-231-52662-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3610980 bytes)
Series
Columbia Series on Religion and Politics
Pages
306\300
Topic
Religion
Time added
2016-02-25 18:34:27
Religion Spirituality Religious Studies Comparativ

Description

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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