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Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life: Free and Equal: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

Autor Christoph Baumgartner
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 dec 2024
Religion in Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all people are free to codetermine the future of their society and equally entitled to their religion and beliefs, given the historical bias towards Christianity in politics and culture within many European societies.
Religious diversity and social and political participation are in fact fiercely contested issues. Critical scholars from philosophy and cultural theory contest that liberal political theories of freedom of religion can adequately deal with issues connected to an increasingly diversified and secularized religious field in historically Christian societies. Consequently, they claim that politics based on such theories cannot deliver on the promise to ensure conditions that allow all members of society equal religious freedom and political participation. By outlining historical developments, and by closely examining case studies of recent controversies about religious diversity in Germany and the Netherlands, this book identifies shortcomings of the currently predominant liberal account of freedom of religion or belief. Based on this analysis, the author proposes a more complex theory of liberal democracy as a form of life, with religion and religious freedom as components of it. This takes into account that informal norms, social structures, and predominant notions of belonging can function as powerful obstacles to freedom and equality, even if formal legal and political institutions prohibit discrimination based on religion. Construing liberal democracy as a “form of life”—that is, as a set of social practices, attitudes, and their institutional manifestations and material expressions—shifts the focus of critical analysis from the law to informal structures and components. This provides an understanding of the dynamics of (culturalized) religion in society, which has often been missing in political philosophical theories. The theory proposed in this book provides normative criteria for building liberal democracies that are tolerant with respect to religious differences and solidaric in terms of ensuring conditions that allow all members of society to codetermine, as equals, the future of society, irrespective of their religion or beliefs.
This book will appeal to scholars of political theory, social and political philosophy, religious studies, sociology, and anthropology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032880426
ISBN-10: 1032880422
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Cuprins

Part I  1. Religious Diversity in Liberal Democratic Societies  2. Self-Determination and the Predominant Liberal Account of Religious Freedom  Part II  Introduction to Part II  3. Historical Developments of Policies of Religion and Religious Diversity in Germany and the Netherlands  4. Recent Developments of the Religious Field  5. Systematic Reflections on Past and Present Policies of Religion in Germany and the Netherlands  Part III  6. Temporal Religious Forms: Holidays  7. Material Religious Forms: Crosses, a Crescent, and Anti-Jewish Sculptures  8. Bodily Practices—(Not) Shaking Hands with People of the Opposite Sex  9. Pictures and Norms Concerning Acts of Expression  Part IV  10. Taking Stock; The Liberal Account of Freedom of Religion or Belief and Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life  11. Religion and Liberal Democracy as a Form of Life  Bibliography  Index

Notă biografică

Christoph Baumgartner is Associate Professor of Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, where he is also currently the Director of the Research Institute for Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Descriere

This book advances a theory to deal with the challenges connected to the liberal democratic ideal that all people are free to codetermine the future of their society and equally entitled to their religion and beliefs, given the historical bias towards Christianity in politics and culture within many European societies.