Ebook: Rawls and Religion

In this volume, established scholars of Rawls and the philosophy of religion reexamine and rearticulate the central tenets of Rawls's theory and show how they accommodate and respond to religion in liberal political life. Contributors reassert the subtlety, openness, and flexibility of his senses of liberal "respect" and "consensus" and reveal their inclusive implications for religious citizens. They also explore the means Rawls proposes for accommodating nonliberal religions in liberal politics, developing his conception of "public reason" into a novel account of the possibilities for rational engagement between liberal and religious ideas. Last, they reevaluate Rawls's liberalism from the "transcendent" perspectives of religions themselves, critically considering its normative and political value, as well as its own "religious" character.

Established scholars of Rawls and the philosophy of religion reexamine and rearticulate the central tenets of Rawls’s theory