The Sources of Secularism (eBook, PDF)

Enlightenment and Beyond
Redaktion: Tomaszewska, Anna; Hämäläinen, Hasse

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Provides a wide historical as well as cross-cultural perspective on recent debates about secularism Offers a re-conception of the sources and impact of the secularization process Establishes new connections between historical events and figures that shaped the modern ways of thinking about religion

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319653945
• Artikelnr.: 53058594

Autorenporträt

Anna Tomaszewska is an assistant professor of philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.   Hasse Hämäläinen is a postdoctoral researcher in the project The Enlightenment Ideas of Freedom of Thought and Conscience, and Contemporary Secularism at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Editor's Introduction.- 2. Towards a Political Theory of Secularism.- 3. The Idea of Immanence in Charles Taylor's Philosophy of Religion.- 4. The Rationality of Secularization.-5. The Secularism of Spinoza and his Circle.- 6. Thomas Hobbes and the Secularization of Authority.- 7. The History and Philosophy of English Freethinking.- 8. Sources of Knowledge, Sources of Doubts: The Emergence of Modern Religious Studies and The French Enlightenment.- 9. The Interlacing of Secular Implications and Sacred Discourse in the French Enlightenment: Toleration and Freedom of Expression in the Works of Abbé Claude Yvon.- 10. Kant on Freedom of Thought.- 11. The Divine Immanence, Kant's Religious Rationalism, and Spinoza.- 12. Talking to Ourselves: An Investigation into the Christian Ethics Inherent in Secularism.- 13. Rethinking Secularism as A Political Principle in the Middle East: From Negative to Positive Understanding and Perception of Secularism.