1st Edition

Religion, Violence, and the Secular State

By John C. Caiazza Copyright 2018
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Religion, Violence, and the Secular State assesses contemporary religious violence in the context of tensions between state secularism and religious ethics, and ultimately concludes that the West must reemphasize its own religious tradition in order to successfully combat the rise of a violent fundamentalism. The book presents an argument in three parts: first, an examination of the nature of... Read more

CONTENTS

Introduction

1. The Garden Image of Religion 

2. General Comments on Religious and Political violence

3. Radical Simplification and the Fate of Violent Islam

4. Contours of the Secular State

5. Theories of Secular Ethics: A Comment and a Brief Survey

6. Techno-secularism is the Ethics of the Secular State

7. The Logic of Propositions and Religious Belief

8. Religious Ethics in the Modern State

Conclusions

Biography

John C. Caiazza, PhD, a longtime academic administrator and independent scholar, is presently Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Rivier University. His general interest is the relationship of scientific ideas to politics and religion. Caiazza lives in New Hampshire with his wife, Jo.