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Secular Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, and Religious Pluralism book cover

1st Edition

Secular Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, and Religious Pluralism

By Andrew Fiala Copyright 2017
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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This book explores the idea of religious pluralism while defending the norms of secular cosmopolitanism, which include liberty, tolerance, civility, and hospitality. The secular cosmopolitan ideal requires us to be more tolerant and more hospitable toward religious believers and non-believers from diverse traditions in our religiously pluralistic world. Some have argued that the world’s religions... Read more

1. Introduction: From Civility to Hospitality



PART I: The Logic of Diversity And a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion



2. One, None, Many: The Logic of Religion



3. The Golden Rule of Hospitality, Agnosticism, and the Pluralistic Wager



4. Naïve Religion and Philosophical Critique





5. Should an Atheist Take Communion? Good Will, Kindness, Testimony, and Truth





6. Pragmatic and Poly-Theistic Philosophy of Religion



PART II: Explorations in the Depth of Diversity



7. Toward a Secular Cosmopolitan Soteriology



8. Love, Liberty, and The Good Samaritan





9. Human Rights, Theocentrism, and Religious Diversity





10. Militant Atheism, Pragmatism, and the God-Shaped Hole





PART III: Hospitality and A Secular Cosmopolitan Ethic





11. Hospitality, Civil Dialogue, and Cosmopolitanism
12. Solidarity, Play, and the Pluralistic Wager



13. Ethics for a Secular Cosmopolitan World

Biography

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (2015), and the 8th edition of Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues with Barbara MacKinnon (2014). Fiala also writes a weekly column for the Fresno Bee.

"In the wake of growing secularism alongside increasing fundamentalism, Dr. Fiala offers a sound, reasoned, thoughtful—and above all, ethical—vision of how we can live in a more tolerant, hospitable world." —Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College, USA

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