Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations

ISBN-13: 9781138091221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 110 str.

James Walters; Esther Kersley

Opis

Religion and the Public Sphere looks at how religion has - and can - inform and contribute to the UK today. Each chapter explores a different theme or topic on the subject of religion in the public realm, from law, liberalism, the environment and security to the public participation of religious minorities and immigration, with a balance between theoretical and more empirical chapters. This book engages with religion in new way, to go beyond religious literacy or debates around radicalisation, and 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.

Recenzje

This volume assembles key figures in the analysis of contemporary religious dynamics to stimulate new conversations about the role of faith in modern societies. They contend that academic and public discourses are more effective at addressing global problems when they bring an analysis of religion to the fore. In an era in which the secularisation thesis has failed, where geo-political crises often intersect with religious identities, but where faith actors also play an increasing role in social welfare and reform, such a conversation is timely if not essential. Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, UK