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Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order

Edited by John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen

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Paper, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15007-1
$29.50 / £20.50

January, 2011
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15006-4
$89.50 / £62.00

Acknowledgments

Part 1

The Enlightenment Revisited: Theoretical Questions

1. Religion, the Enlightenment. and the New Global Order

John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen

2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism: The Essential Choice

William A. Galston

3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good

Jean Bethke Elshtain

4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles

Thomas L. Pangle

Part 2

The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions

5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews

David Novak

6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty

John Witte Jr.

7. India: The Politics of Religious Reform and Conflict

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political Ethics

Abdulaziz Sachedina

9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal Democracy

Sohail H. Hashmi

10. The Identity of the Christian Democratic Movement and Theory of Democracy

Roberto Papini

11. Concluding Thoughts

John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen

Contributors

Index

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About the Author

John M. Owen IV is associate professor of politics and faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War and The Clash of Ideas in World Politics and lives with his wife and three children in Charlottesville, Virginia.J. Judd Owen is associate professor of political science and a senior fellow at the center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He is the author of Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism and is finishing a book on the Enlightenment's project of religious transformation. He lives with his wife and two children in Decatur, Georgia.

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