In this wide-ranging and timely volume, fourteen scholars address
the important question, How should we talk about religion, whether
our own or the religion of others? They confront such fundamental
topics as the sufficiency of "reason" for a full life; the adequacy
of our methods of describing and analyzing religion; the degree to
which any serious confrontation with the religious experiences of
others will challenge our own; and whether there can be a pluralism
that does not dissolve into universal relativism. Writing from a
diversity of perspectives and academic disciplines-philosophy,
classics, medieval studies, history, anthropology, economics,
political science, and art history, among others-the contributors
illuminate issues at the heart of the most significant cultural,
social, and political debates of our day. What emerges is not a
univocal answer to the question posed in the title. Instead, by
demonstrating how religion is talked about in the languages of very
different academic disciplines, the essayists creatively address
issues that no one should ignore: fundamentalism; the role of
religion in American democracy; the tension between secular
liberalism and religious rhetoric; monotheism versus pluralism; and
the relationship between poverty and liberation theology.
Collectively, their various approaches to talking about
religion-differences due to background, age, nationality, religious
outlook, and intellectual commitment, yet all valid-provide a
general response to the question in the book's title: in
intellectual and personal community. Contributorss: Luis E.
Bacigalupo, Clifford Ando, Sabine MacCormack, R. Scott Appleby,
Bilinda Straight, Patrick J. Deneen, Wayne C. Booth (1921-2005),
Eugene Garver, Javier Iguiniz Echeverria, Ruth Abbey, Sol Serrano,
Carol Bier, Jeffrey Kripal, Ebrahim Moosa.
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