ISBN:
9781000969139
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (127 pages)
Parallel Title:
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DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Religion and sociology
;
Religion and social status
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Science and religion -- Chapter 1: Eight points about science and religion in modern science-based societies in crisis -- Common to all sciences: informed and self-critical argumentation, and mutual learning processes -- The need for informed and self-critical criticism -- An inherent ethos of improvement -- Science: part of the solution, part of the problem -- Plurality of religions: a need for clarifying definitions and convincing justifications -- In the new era: a close relationship between monotheism and the new natural sciences -- The inherent need for a critique of religion -- Modernization of consciousness -- Chapter 2: To speak of God in the light of the problem of evil -- On the need for theology and the danger of unintended blasphemy -- Background -- The problem -- Shifts over time in the relationship between faith in God and the perception of a religious justification of morality -- Notes on the three monotheistic religions concerning the conception of God and the way they were influenced by different socio-historical contexts -- The problem of evil in the light of different conceptions of God in the three monotheistic religions -- What implications does this have for speaking of God? -- What implications does this have for the perception of the Holy? -- Part II: Religion and the constitutional state -- Chapter 3: Freedom of expression and cartoons -- Background -- Objections and arguments -- Justification of freedom of expression: a (self-evident) "innate and inalienable right" for all individuals -- Justification of freedom of expression: based on the pursuit of truth, autonomy, and (deliberative) democracy -- Freedom of expression as constitutive precondition for discursive seeking of truth.
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