This book assesses the rapid transformation of the political agency
of religious groups within transnational civil society under the
conditions of globalization that have weakened the sovereign
nation-state. It offers a comprehensive synthesis of the parallel
resurgences of Jasper's axial thesis from the distinct lines of
research initiated by Eisenstadt, Habermas, Taylor, Bellah, and
others. It explores the concept of cosmoipolitanism from the
combined perspectives of sociology of religion, critical theory,
secularization theory, and evolutionary cultural anthropology. At
the theoretical level, cosmoipolitanism prescribes how local,
national, transnational, global, and virtual spaces ought
publically to engage in transcivilizational discourse without
presuming secular assumptions tied to cosmopolitanism. As a
transnational extension of the moral-ethical universality of the
great Axial Age traditions, cosmoipolitanism provides an ideal
description of empirical data. Employing the insights of critical
theory, this book offers a micro-level analysis of the pragmatics
of discourse of each of the major axial traditions producing a
genealogy in iterated stages of the dialectics of secularization as
a multi-faceted narrative of the role of religion in alternative
modernities. While circumscribing the particular historical limits
of each tradition, the book extends their internal claims to
species universality in light of the potential for boundless
communication Jaspers saw as initiated with the Axial Age. In Jon
Bowman's novel and important work, he rethinks the challenges of
global justice. Bowman is not just concerned with global justice in
the modern world, but with a genealogy that begins with a better
understanding of the Axial age, one that is also the unique
signature of cosmoi-political institutions. Arguing with depth and
precision, Bowman challenges Kantian and Rawlsian universalism. His
argument provides a new interpretation of cosmopolitan justice as
he explores the deeper roots of cosmopolitan justice. James Bohman
Saint Louis University Jon Bowman's Cosmoipolitan Justice is an
important, innovative and timely work. Construing globality in
terms of pervasive conditions of worldwide interdependence, Bowman
advances a decidedly pluralistic account of cosmopolitanism, one
uniquely shaped by recent theories of multiple modernities. His
analysis is sustained by a highly informed appropriation of such
diverse thinkers as Theodor Adorno, Abudullah An-Naim, Talad Asad,
Schmuel Eisenstadt, Jurgen Habermas, Karl Jaspers, John Rawls,
Amartya Sen, and Charles Taylor. One special feature is the book's
synthesis of research on global governance with that on
post-secularity and the place of religion in the public sphere. On
this basis Bowman presents a distinctive account of the world's
axial religions, one underwriting a multi-polar, intercultural
global public realm able to address social, political, and economic
issues confronting the global community today. This book should be
of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, political
theory, international relations, sociology, and religious studies.
Professor Andrew Buchwalter Department of Philosophy University of
North Florida
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