Explorations in Post-Secular Metaphysics

This book explores the metaphysical assumptions that underlie different interpretations of the relationship between religion and the secular, faith and reason, and transcendence and immanence. It explores different answers to the question of how people of diverse religious and cultural identities can live together peacefully.

Bengtson's text offers a critical and engaging look at contemporary debates on post-secularism that will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields and sub-disciplinesphilosophy and theology, political and social theory, and religious studies. To his credit, he manages the difficult feat of providing an analysis that is both critical-historical (genealogical) and political-ontological (norm-oriented), dancing a line between ethical problems and social constructionism without firmly coming down on one side. (Matt Sheedy, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, May, 2016)

Autorentext

Josef Bengtson gained his PhD from the University of Southern Denmark and works at the intersection of philosophy of religious studies and political philosophy.

Inhalt

Introduction: Between Scientism and Fundamentalism 1 Whose Religion, Which Secular? 2 Phenomenology and Overlapping Consensus 3 Analogy and Corporative Pluralism 4 Becoming and Rhizomatic Pluralism 5 Post-secular Visions 6 Conclusion