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Distributed for the University of Scranton Press

Edited by Patrice Brodeur and Sondra Myers

The Pluralist Paradigm

Democracy and Religion in the 21st Century

200 pages,  6 x 9 

Paper $20.00

ISBN: 9781589661516   Published November 2006

Acknowledgements
Preface - Sondra Myers
 
I: Introduction
Democracy and Religion: an Overview of the Past, A Pluralist Vision for the Future - Patrice Brodeur
 
II-A: Democracy and Religion: In Creative Tension, Perennial Conflict, or Constructive Interaction?
Desecularization of the World - Peter Berger
Roman Catholicism in the Age of John Paul II - George Weigel
The Evangelical Upsurge - David Martin
Political Islam - Abdullahi A. an-Na'im
A Liberal Democracy and the Fate of the Earth - J. Ronald Engel
When Religion Becomes Evil - Charles Kimball
Under God? - Michael Perry
Religion, Democracy, and the "Twin Tolerations" - Alfred Stepan
 
II-B: Encounters Marked by Nuance and Complexity
An Islamic Democracy for Iraq? - Ian Buruma
Passage to China - Amartya Sen
More Religion, but Not the Old-Time Kind - Laurie Goodstein
Church Meets State - Mark Lilla
Religious Right, Left Meet in Middle, Clergy Aim to Show That Faith Unifies - Alan Cooperman
Reinvigorate America's True Values - Nadine Strossen
 
II-C: The Wisdom of Modern Prophets
The World House (Where Do We Go from Here) - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law - Robert F. Drinan, S.J.
Buddhism, Asian Values, and Democracy - Dalai Lama
The Dignity of Difference - Jonathan Sacks
Grounding Democracy in Reverence for Life: A View from Judaism - Irving Greenberg
Ethics and Politics - Mohammed Arkoun
The Idea of Democratic Religious Government - Abdolkarim Souroush
 
II-D: The Radical Sanity of the Pluralist Paradigm
Introduction to a New America - Diana L. Eck
Radical Evil in the Lockean State: The Neglect of the Political Emotions - Martha C. Nussbaum
Exodus and Revolution - Michael Walzer
Putting on Our Democratic Armor - Cornel West
Islam and the Challenge of Democracy - Khaled Abou El Fadl
No Future Without Forgiveness - Desmond Tutu
Foundering? - Noah Feldman
 
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