...than supplement lifeʹs religious sanction. In instances like this, as Charles Taylor has implied, opposing parties meet not on the basis of a Rawlsian overlapping consensus but on joint submission...
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Rethinking secularism
Muslims in European public spheres and the limits of liberal theories of citizenship
by Jocelyne Cesari...Charles Taylor, for instance, considered the demand that The Satanic Verses be banned to be illegitimate. Michael Walzer, well known for his relativist approach to values, took a hard-line liberal...
Lives of Great Religious Books
The birth of a book
by Martin E. Marty...its ten-foot by seven-foot floor space. All the senses can come into play during such imagining. For instance, the odor of the whole third floor in which this cell stood,...
Essays
Love’s ladder’s God
by Patrick Lee Miller...Wisdom and panting for it, with all the effort of our heart we did for one instant attain to touch it; then sighing, and leaving the first fruits of our...
The state of religion in China
Governing religion with one eye closed
by Robert P. Weller...some instability as well as its own modes of repression. Second, the government will find it very difficult to rework religious policy in a fundamental way until it is willing...
Secularity and the liberal arts
Nothing human is foreign to me
by Annette Aronowicz...adherence to it as the absolute truth. This act of translating is, in fact, what great philosophers of religion in every tradition have done. Pascal, for instance, manages to paint...