Religion and Radical Pluralism

Jeff Shawn Jose

doi:10.5771/9781666920468

Summary

In Religion and Radical Pluralism: Engaging Rawls and Gandhi, Jeff Shawn Jose confronts the question of the role of religion in the public sphere through the writings of John Rawls and Mahatma Gandhi. Jose explores Rawls’s and Gandhi’s contrasting and complementary views through the framework of three objections—integrity, fairness, and divisiveness—against a view of public reason that restricts the expression of religious arguments in the public sphere. The book introduces Gandhi’s ideas into Rawls’s political liberal framework and brings Rawls’s ideas into the Gandhian religious framework, a critical and creative encounter where the relationship between Gandhian and Rawlsian approaches becomes a fertile ground for reciprocal, dialectical reflections. Religion and Radical Pluralism teases out and evaluates the tensions and prospects in Rawls’s and Gandhi’s views on the role of religion in the public sphere, thus offering a pertinent contribution to the study of radical pluralism in contemporary societies.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2045-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2046-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 238
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
1. Notes No access
1. Secularisation Theories and the Resurgence of Religion in the Public Sphere No access
2. 1. Deprivatisation and Public Religion No access
  2. Towards a Globalisation Perspective No access
3. 1. The Decline of Religion as the Unthought of Secularisation No access
  2. Secularity as Changing Conditions of Belief No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. Sequential Modernity and Historical Specificity No access
  2. Thick and Thin Religion No access
  3. Religious Diversity in Fuzzy and Enumerated Communities No access
  4. State, Society and Location of Religious Identity No access
2. 1. Shortcomings of the Western Responses to Inter- and Intra-Religious Domination No access
  2. Indian Response to Inter- and Intra-Religious Domination No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Deprivatised Religion No access
  2. Rawls’s Personal Orientation to Religion No access
2. 1. Rawlsian Society and the Person No access
  2. 1. The Fact of Reasonable Pluralism and Reasonable Persons No access
    2. Stability in a Theory of Justice No access
    3. The Necessity of Public Reason No access
    4. The Content of Public Reason No access
    5. Scope of Public Reason No access
    6. The Ideal of Public Reason No access
  3. Religious Arguments and Proviso No access
  4. 1. Stability and Overlapping Consensus No access
    2. Stability for Right Reasons No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
1. 1. Spontaneous Religious Experiences No access
  2. Reflective Experience of Hinduism No access
  3. Reflective Experience of Other Religions and Worldviews No access
  4. Reflective Assimilation of Literature No access
  5. Gandhi’s Response to Major Societal Movements in India No access
2. Gandhi’s Response to Reform, Revival, Nationalism and Separatism No access
3. 1. Religious Pluralism and Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava No access
  2. Spiritualising Politics and Religion No access
4. 1. Satyagraha and Political Transformation No access
  2. Individual and Societal Transformation through Satyagraha No access
  3. Satyagraha in Practice No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. The Human Person and Society No access
    2. Attainment of Swaraj No access
    3. Swaraj and Rationality No access
  2. The Individual and Truth No access
  3. Significance of the Gandhian Contribution to the Integrity Objection No access
2. 1. 1. Ashrams and Experiments of Fairness in Action No access
    2. Fairness Beyond the Ashram Boundaries No access
  2. Significance of the Gandhian Contribution to the Fairness Objection No access
3. 1. 1. The Limitedness of Institutions No access
    2. Poorna Swaraj and the Constructive Programme No access
  2. Significance of the Gandhian Contribution to the Divisiveness Objection No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. Political Disposition and the Social Dimension of Integrity No access
  2. Political Understanding of the Human Person No access
  3. Public Reason and the Unreasonable No access
  4. Truth and its Expression in the Public Political Forum No access
2. 1. Political Fairness and Civic Friendship No access
  2. Public Reason and Fairness in Action No access
  3. Religion and Restraint in the Public Political Forum No access
  4. Secular Comprehensive Doctrines and Secular Reasons No access
3. 1. The Basic Structure of Society and Stability No access
  2. Overlapping Consensus and a Shared Justificatory Framework No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. 1. A Political Response No access
  2. A Religious Response No access
2. 1. A Political Response No access
  2. A Religious Response No access
3. 1. A Political Response No access
  2. A Religious Response No access
4. The Veil of the Political and the Countenance of the Religious No access
Bibliography No access Pages 219 - 230
Index No access Pages 231 - 236
About the Author No access Pages 237 - 238