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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Camil Ungureanu , Paolo Monti (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.589kg ISBN: 9780415552196ISBN 10: 0415552192 Pages: 350 Publication Date: 13 December 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Plea for Complexity 1. Political Liberalism, Public Reason, and Religion: John Rawls 2. Public Reason Contested: Religion, Citizenship, and Inclusion 3. Postsecularism, Translation, and Religion: Jürgen Habermas 4. Republicanism: Between Non-domination, the Common Good, and Civil Religion 5. Charles Taylor’s Hermeneutics of Modernity: Secularization, Recognition, and Inclusive Liberalism 6. Multiculturalism and its Critics: From Rise to Fall? 7. The Conundrum of Gender Equality and Religion: Between the Autonomy and the Capability Approach 8. Democracy and Postmodernism: Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo 9. Globalization and the Ambivalence of ReligionReviews`Camil Ungureanu and Paolo Monti have written an impressive book full of insights on one of the most important political issues of our time. The book provides a compass with which to navigate the oceanic literature on the topic: the authors take the reader through very high seas of contemporary controversies on the place of religion in our societies. Ungureanu and Monti steer the boat to the safe harbour of detailed knowledge and dispassionate analysis despite the sheer complexity of the problem.' - Lorenzo Zucca, King's College London, UK. `This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debates about the role of religion in our contemporary democratic societies. It will be essential reading for scholars and students looking for a critical introduction to the debates, while Camil Ungureanu and Paolo Monti also provide their own original take on the subject.' - Lasse Thomassen, Queen Mary University of London, UK. `Complete, well-documented, lucid, and always thought-provoking, Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion takes stock of a rapidly growing debate on the changing relation of religion and politics in the 21st century. Always paying the complexity of the subject its dues, Ungureanu's and Monti's volume is a must-read for any reader up to find her own way through the maze of the conflicting views on religion in the public realm.' - Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. `Camil Ungureanu and Paolo Monti have written an impressive book full of insights on one of the most important political issues of our time. The book provides a compass with which to navigate the oceanic literature on the topic: the authors take the reader through very high seas of contemporary controversies on the place of religion in our societies. Ungureanu and Monti steer the boat to the safe harbour of detailed knowledge and dispassionate analysis despite the sheer complexity of the problem.' - Lorenzo Zucca, King's College London, UK. `This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debates about the role of religion in our contemporary democratic societies. It will be essential reading for scholars and students looking for a critical introduction to the debates, while Camil Ungureanu and Paolo Monti also provide their own original take on the subject.' - Lasse Thomassen, Queen Mary University of London, UK. `Complete, well-documented, lucid, and always thought-provoking, Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion takes stock of a rapidly growing debate on the changing relation of religion and politics in the 21st century. Always paying the complexity of the subject its dues, Ungureanu's and Monti's volume is a must-read for any reader up to find her own way through the maze of the conflicting views on religion in the public realm.' - Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. 'Ungureanu and Monti have provided a wide-ranging and philosophically balanced account of the major positions on religion and politics. Their focus is international yet they write with a keen sense of individual and cultural differences. The book nicely combines insightful broad strokes with detailed analysis and careful scholarship.' - Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, USA. `Camil Ungureanu and Paolo Monti have written an impressive book full of insights on one of the most important political issues of our time. The book provides a compass with which to navigate the oceanic literature on the topic: the authors take the reader through very high seas of contemporary controversies on the place of religion in our societies. Ungureanu and Monti steer the boat to the safe harbour of detailed knowledge and dispassionate analysis despite the sheer complexity of the problem.' - Lorenzo Zucca, King's College London, UK. `This book makes an important contribution to the ongoing debates about the role of religion in our contemporary democratic societies. It will be essential reading for scholars and students looking for a critical introduction to the debates, while Camil Ungureanu and Paolo Monti also provide their own original take on the subject.' - Lasse Thomassen, Queen Mary University of London, UK. `Complete, well-documented, lucid, and always thought-provoking, Contemporary Political Philosophy and Religion takes stock of a rapidly growing debate on the changing relation of religion and politics in the 21st century. Always paying the complexity of the subject its dues, Ungureanu's and Monti's volume is a must-read for any reader up to find her own way through the maze of the conflicting views on religion in the public realm.' - Alessandro Ferrara, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy. 'Ungureanu and Monti have provided a wide-ranging and philosophically balanced account of the major positions on religion and politics. Their focus is international yet they write with a keen sense of individual and cultural differences. The book nicely combines insightful broad strokes with detailed analysis and careful scholarship.' - Robert Audi, University of Notre Dame, USA. Author InformationCamil Ungureanu is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy and Coordinator of the MA in Political Philosophy at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. He has published articles in several journals and co-edited various books on the topics of contemporary political philosophy, art, religion, and politics. Paolo Monti is Lecturer at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, Italy. He has published and edited several works on the philosophy of social practices, the ethics of democratic citizenship, and the role of religion in the public sphere. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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