Description
Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations explores the changing contribution of religion to public life today. Bringing together a diverse group of preeminent scholars on religion, each chapter explores an aspect of religion in the public realm, from law, liberalism, the environment and security to the public participation of religious minorities and immigration. This book engages with religion in new ways, going beyond religious literacy or debates around radicalisation, to look at how religion can contribute to public discourse. Religion, this book will show, can help inform the most important debates of our time.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Reimagining Academic Understanding of Religion in the Public Sphere
James Walters
Religion in Plural Publics
Chapter 1
Dialogue: The Future of Faith
Charles Taylor and Craig Calhoun
Chapter 2
The Decline of Religious Freedom and the Return of Religious Influence
John Milbank
Chapter 3
Equality for Secular Belief and Minority Faiths? Reflections on the Commission on Religion in British Public Life
Tariq Modood
Religion and Public Good
Chapter 4
Dialogue: Religion and the Environment
Rowan Williams and Bruno Latour
Religion and Public Security
Chapter 5
Religion, Security, Strategy: an unholy Trinity?
Gwen Griffith-Dickson
Chapter 6
The Genesis of Strategy: How to Stop Killing in the Name of God
Jerry White
Afterword Afterword
Craig Calhoun
Index
