Overview

Religious pluralism is everywhere in today's politics. Increased immigration flows, the collapse of communism, and the globalization of communications technologies have all fostered a wider variety of religious beliefs, practices, and organizations within and across democratic societies. This is true in both the United States and Europe, where growing and diverse minority communities are transforming the political landscape. As a result, controversies over such things as headscarves and depictions of Mohammed are unsettling a largely secular Europe, while a Christian majority in the US faces familiar questions about church-state relations amidst unprecedented religious diversity. Far from receding into the background, religious language pervades arguments around established issues such as abortion and capital punishment, and new ones such as stem cell research and same-sex marriage. In Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism, leading scholars from multiple disciplines explore these dynamics and their implications for democratic theory and practice. What are the contours of this new religious pluralism? What are its implications for the theory and practice of democracy? Does increasing religious pluralism erode the cultural and social foundations of democracy? To what extent do different religious communities embrace similar -- or at least compatible -- ethical and political commitments? By seeking answers to these questions and revealing religious pluralism as both a source of animosity and a potent force for peaceful engagement, this book offers a revealing look at the future of religion in democratic societies.

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Author:   Thomas Banchoff (Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Peace, Georgetown University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9780195307290

ISBN 10:   0195307291
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   01 April 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Thomas Banchoff: Introduction Part I: Contours of the New Religious Pluralism 2: Peter L. Berger: Pluralism, Protestantization and the Voluntary Principle 3: Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart: Uneven Secularization in the U.S. and Western Europe 4: Jose Casanova: Immigration and the New Religious Pluralism: An EU/U.S. Comparison 5: Yossi Shain: The Transnational Struggle for Jewish Pluralism 6: Sam Cherribi: Politicians' Perceptions of the Muslim Problem : The Dutch Example in European Context 7: John L. Esposito: America's Muslims: Issues of Identity, Religious Diversity, and Pluralism 8: Robert Wuthnow: Religious Diversity in a Christian Nation: American Identity and American Democracy Part II: Democratic Responses to the New Religious Pluralism 9: Martha C. Nussbaum: Radical Evil in Liberal Democracies: The Neglect of the Political Emotions 10: Daniele Hervieu-Leger: Islam and the Republic: the French Case 11: Gracie Davie: Pluralism, Tolerance, and Democracy: Theory and Practice in Europe 12: Diana L. Eck: American Religious Pluralism: Civic and Theological Discourse 13: Stanley Hauerwas: The End of Religious Pluralism A Tribute to David Burrell, C.S.C. 14: Miroslav Volf: A Voice of One's Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World 15: Thomas Banchoff: Stem Cell Politics, Religious and Secular: The United States and France Compared

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Thomas Banchoff is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He is the author of The German Problem Transformed: Institutions, Politics, and Foreign Policy (1999) and co-editor of Legitimacy and the European Union: The Contested Polity (1999).

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