1st Edition

Religion in Modern Societies

By Gunnar Skirbekk Copyright 2024
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

In Religion in Modern Societies , Gunnar Skirbekk examines the challenging relationship between religion, science, and the state, and explores literature on religion in Western and Muslim-majority societies. Through the lens of modernity theory and the perspective of philosophy of science, key issues are discussed, including freedom of expression and the interaction between religion and... Read more

Part 1. Science and Religion

Chapter 1. Eight points about science and religion in modern science-based societies in crisis

Chapter 2. To speak of God in light of the problem of evil

Part 2. Religion and the Constitutional State

Chapter 3. Freedom of expression and cartoons

Chapter 4. Offence, the limit of freedom of expression?

Part 3. Religion and modern institutions

Chapter 5. Multiculturalism and the welfare state?

Part 4. Religion in modern societies

Chapter 6. Religion as social integration: Jürgen Habermas

Chapter 7. Islam in a historical class perspective: Ahmet T. Kuru

Chapter 8. Religion in science-based and institutionally differentiated societies in crisis: Concluding Remarks

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Index

Biography

Gunnar Skirbekk is a professor of philosophy, now emeritus, at the Department of Philosophy and the Center for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Norway.