Religion, the Enlightenment, and the new global order / edited by John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen. - 1st ed. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2010. - x, 290 p. ; 23 cm. - The Columbia series on religion and politics . - Columbia series on religion and politics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. The Enlightenment revisited : theoretical questions. Religion, the Enlightenment, and the new global order / John M Owen IV and J. Judd Owen -- Religious violence or religious pluralism : the essential choice / William A. Galston -- Religion, Enlightenment, and a common good / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- How and why the West has lost confidence in its foundational political principles / Thomas L. Pangle -- II. The Enlightenment, secularity, and the religions. The Enlightenment project, Spinoza, and the Jews / David Novak -- Puritan sources of Enlightenment liberty / John Witte Jr. -- India : the politics of religious reform and conflict / Pratap Bhanu Mehta -- Reason and revelation in Islamic political ethics / Abdulaziz Sachedina -- Islam, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy / Sohail H. Hashmi -- The identity of the Christian Democratic Movement and theory of democracy / Roberto Papini -- Concluding thoughts / John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen.

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Religion and politics.
Enlightenment.
Islam.

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