Political Theology, Religious Diversity and the Nature of Democratic Citizenship
Driving this essay is a question central to political theology; that is, how can I keep faith with my distinctive commitments while also forming a common life with neighbors who have a different vision of life to me? My response has four parts. First, I develop a normative definition of politics wit...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2020]
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Political theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 318-338 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religious pluralism
/ Nationality
/ Nationalism
/ Cosmopolitanism
/ Consociationalism
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy NCD Political ethics ZC Politics in general |
Further subjects: | B
Sovereignty
B Pluralism B Religious Diversity B Democracy B Citizenship B consociationalism B Politics B confederalism |
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Summary: | Driving this essay is a question central to political theology; that is, how can I keep faith with my distinctive commitments while also forming a common life with neighbors who have a different vision of life to me? My response has four parts. First, I develop a normative definition of politics within which to situate an account of citizenship and the political implications of deep religious plurality in a shared polity. Second, I examine how citizenship is not just a legal status that entails certain rights and duties, but also denotes an identity, a performance of politics, and a shared rationality. Third, I identify the dominant ways in which citizenship is understood in the contemporary context, namely, through either a nationalist or cosmopolitan framework, contrasting these with a consociational conception of citizenship. And lastly, I lay out how a consociational framework provides a more generative basis for conceptualizing religious diversity. |
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ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2019.1678896 |