By Fevzi Bilgin
Having survived the method of modernization and reasserted themselves in public lifestyles, non secular traditions play an more and more vital public position in shaping and defining social associations and interactions.
This booklet examines Rawls’s concept of political liberalism within the context of Muslim societies, the place faith wields an important social and political impact. Contrasting a sociological research with a theoretical method, the writer explores the political questions cited via spiritual members, companies, and minorities, and examines primary notions comparable to neutrality of country, public/private contrast, and person autonomy. supplying a wealthy set of conceptual and normative tools, the writer offers new how one can include political liberalism into political discourses and advocating coverage prescriptions for the development of democracy in Muslim societies.
Independent of the focal point on Muslim societies, this e-book makes an important contribution to the political liberalism debate. As such, it will likely be of curiosity not just to scholars of Islam and the center East, but additionally to these with an curiosity in political philosophy, democracy, faith and modern political theory.
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