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 possibleor even desirabletoday.
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.
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- I. The Enlightenment Revisited: Theoretical Questions
- Chapter 1. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order -John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen
- Chapter 2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism: The Essential Choice -William A. Galston
- Chapter 3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good -Jean Bethke Elshtain
- Chapter 4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles -Thomas L. Pangle
- II. The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions
- Chapter 5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews -David Novak
- Chapter 6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty -John Witte Jr.
- Chapter 7. India The Politics of Religious Reform and Conflict -Pratap Bhanu Mehta
- Chapter 8. Reason and Revelation inIslamic Political Ethics -Abdulaziz Sachedina
- Chapter 9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and the Challenge of Democracy -Sohail H. Hashmi
- Chapter 10. Religion and Politics: The Identity of the Christian Democrat Movement and Theory of Democracy -Roberto Papini
- Chapter 11. Concluding Thoughts -John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen
- Contributors
- Index
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