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| Religion, Difference and the Promise of Liberal Political Theory: On Abeysekara's The Politics of Postsecular Religion | ||
| 作者 | De Roover, Jakob |
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| 出處題名 | Religion |
| 卷期 | v.42 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2012.01 |
| 頁次 | 141 - 149 |
| 出版者 | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.tandf.co.uk/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliations: University of Zürich , Switzerland Author biographies Jakob De Roover is currently a fellow at the University Research Priority Programme Asia and Europe of the University of Zürich. His research concerns the emergence of the liberal model of religious toleration and the secular state in modern Europe and its implementation in colonial and postcolonial India. |
| 關鍵詞 | liberalism; norms; postcolonialism; difference |
| 摘要 | Ananda Abeysekara's work revolves around the ‘aporia of our democratic existence.’ This review offers a close analysis of this puzzle and then connects it to the historical process whereby the internal dynamics of western Christianity gave shape to normative political theory. Normative political models have a peculiar relation to the empirical world. At any point, one can judge the factual empirical situation in a liberal democracy – no matter what that factual situation is – as deficient vis-à-vis norms like equality, freedom of expression, religious freedom and separation of church and state. The trouble is that we do not know what the ‘complete’ fulfillment of these norms would look like. Still, these norms propel political analysis: as Abeysekara notes, classical and postcolonial studies of conflict in Sri Lanka build on a set of deep-seated norms about ‘difference,’ ‘unity’ and ‘humanism,’ which have emerged from the Christian dynamic of universalization that laid the foundations of liberal political theory. |
| ISSN | 0048721X (P); 10961151 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 95 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.01.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.12.16 |
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