Religion and Society in the 21st Century

In seven papers from a May 2011 symposium in Berlin, scholars of religion and other humanities and social sciences ponder the fate of religion in the political and intellectual milieu of the 21st century. They consider the religious between self-referential religious communications, communication on religion, and sacralization; pluralism, liberalism, and constitutional patriotism: a normative theory from the Indian Constitution; the formation of the nation-state, religious pluralism, and the public sphere in Brazil; the midwife or the handmaid: religion in political advertising in Nigeria; sacrificial space: the Hebrew imagination "comes home;" religions under liberal-secular governance: dialoguing with Muslims in Germany; and concepts of religion and their political implications. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Joachim Kupper, Klaus W. Hempfer, and Erika Fischer-Lichte, FU Berlin, Germany.