Religion in Modern Societies

ISBN-13: 9781032579207 / Twarda / 2023 / 114 str.

Gunnar Skirbekk

Opis

Examining the challenging relationship between religion, science, and the state, and exploring literature on religion in Western and Muslim-majority societies, this volume is essential reading to those interested in philosophy of religion, religion and science, the theory of modernization, and the politicization of religion.

Spis treści

Part 1. Science and Religion Chapter 1. Eight points about science and religion in modern science-based societies in crisis  Chapter 2. To speak of God in light of the problem of evil Part 2. Religion and the Constitutional State  Chapter 3. Freedom of expression and cartoons  Chapter 4. Offence, the limit of freedom of expression? Part 3. Religion and modern institutions Chapter 5. Multiculturalism and the welfare state? Part 4. Religion in modern societies Chapter 6. Religion as social integration: Jürgen Habermas  Chapter 7. Islam in a historical class perspective: Ahmet Kuru  Chapter 8. Religion in science-based and institutionally differentiated societies in crisis: Concluding Remarks  Info on previous work  Index

O autorze

Gunnar Skirbekk is a professor of philosophy, now emeritus, at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway.