Secular Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, and Religious Pluralism

Author:   Andrew Fiala (California State University, Fresno, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138684485


Pages:   222
Publication Date:   31 October 2016
Format:   Hardback
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This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality. The secular cosmopolitan ideal requires us to be more tolerant and more hospitable toward religious believers and non-believers from diverse traditions in our religiously pluralistic world. Some have argued that the world’s religions can be united around a common core. This book argues that it is both impossible and inadvisable either to reduce religion to one thing or to deny religion. Instead, the book affirms non reductive pluralism and seeks to understand how we should live in a pluralistic world. Building on work in the sociology of religion and philosophy of religion, the book examines the grown of religious diversity (and the spread of nonreligion) in the contemporary world. It argues that religious toleration, hospitality, and compassion must be extended in a global direction. Secular cosmopolitanism recognizes that each person has a right to his or her deepest beliefs and that the diversity of the world’s religious and non-religious traditions cannot be reduced or eliminated.

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Author:   Andrew Fiala (California State University, Fresno, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781138684485


ISBN 10:   1138684481
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   31 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: From Civility to Hospitality PART I: The Logic of Diversity And a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion 2. One, None, Many: The Logic of Religion 3. The Golden Rule of Hospitality, Agnosticism, and the Pluralistic Wager 4. Naïve Religion and Philosophical Critique 5. Should an Atheist Take Communion? Good Will, Kindness, Testimony, and Truth 6. Pragmatic and Poly-Theistic Philosophy of Religion PART II: Explorations in the Depth of Diversity 7. Toward a Secular Cosmopolitan Soteriology 8. Love, Liberty, and The Good Samaritan 9. Human Rights, Theocentrism, and Religious Diversity 10. Militant Atheism, Pragmatism, and the God-Shaped Hole PART III: Hospitality and A Secular Cosmopolitan Ethic 11. Hospitality, Civil Dialogue, and Cosmopolitanism 12. Solidarity, Play, and the Pluralistic Wager 13. Ethics for a Secular Cosmopolitan World

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In the wake of growing secularism alongside increasing fundamentalism, Dr. Fiala offers a sound, reasoned, thoughtful-and above all, ethical-vision of how we can live in a more tolerant, hospitable world. -Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College, USA


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Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (2015), and the 8th edition of Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues with Barbara MacKinnon (2014). Fiala also writes a weekly column for the Fresno Bee.

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