Professor Roger Trigg

Religious Diversity

Philosophical and Political Dimensions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Religious Diversity examines whether believing in a religion's truth increases intolerance and how the existence (and growth) of multiple religions affects political societies.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 205
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781107638778
• ISBN-10: 1107638771
• Artikelnr.: 40698372

Autorenporträt

Roger Trigg is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick and a Senior Research Fellow at the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford. He is the past President of the European Society for Philosophy of Religion, as well as the British Society for Philosophy of Religion. He is the author of many books in philosophy, particularly in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of science and social science, including Reason and Commitment (Cambridge, 1973), Religion in Public Life: Must Religion Be Privatized? (2007) and Equality, Freedom and Religion (2012). He has lectured widely in different countries, including Russia, on issues concerning religion in public life and religious freedom. He is currently an Associate Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington DC with the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center. He is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry of Princeton, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The challenge of religious diversity
2. Do religions claim truth?
3. Religious pluralism
4. The roots of religious belief
5. Does disagreement undermine theism?
6. Education and religious diversity
7. Truth and coercion
8. Religious diversity and identity
9. Religion as personal preference
10. Freedom and religion.