From Political Theory to Political Theology

Péter Losonczi is Associate Professor at the Institute for Intercultural Studies at the University of West Hungary (Szombathely), Hungary. Aakash Singh is Research Professor at the Centre for Ethics and Global Politics at LUISS University, Rome, Italy.

"This is an impressive collection of interesting essays on political theology, covering a spectrum of possibilities from the more liberal to the more conservative. These essays diversely address the major issues that have been intensely discussed since the return of religion as an urgent concern for recent political developments. The editors have done a fine job in choosing essays which reflect current debates where a pluralism of possibilities vie for consideration and favor." - Professor William Desmond, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

• Foreword, Graham Ward and Michael Hoelzl (both University of Manchester, UK) Editor's Introduction POLITICAL THEORY Part One: Liberal Accommodations to the Religious Challenge 1. Religion and Liberalism: Public Reason, Public Sphere and Cultural Pluralism, Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS University of Rome, Italy) 2. Accommodating Pluralism through Public Justification: Moral vs. Practical Considerations, Eszter Kollár (LUISS University of Rome, Italy) 3. Public Reason and Models of Judgement, Daniele Santoro (LUISS University of Rome, Italy) 4. Hannah Arendt and the Problem of Public ReligionI, Gábor Gángó (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary)Part Two: Challenging the Liberal Secular Paradigm From Within 5. Cultural Identity, Religion, Moral Pluralism and the Law, Herman De Dijn (Harvard University, USA) 6. Can Freedom of Religion Replace the Virtue of Tolerance? Peter Jonkers (Tilburg University, The Netherlands) 7. Democracy and Moral Relativism in a Post-Secular World: Reclaiming Obligation, András Lánczi (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary) FROM POLITICAL THEORY TO POLITICAL THEOLOGY Part Three: Radicalizing the Challenges: Recuperating Religion 8. Religion, Democracy and the Empty Shrine of Pluralism: Some Reminders, Walter Van Herck (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 9. Religion after Auschwitz: Jonas, Metz, and the Place of Religion in our World Today, Balázs M. Mezei (Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Hungary) 10. Politics without Dénouement, Faith without Guarantee: A Critical Appraisal of the Politics of Religion of the Left and the Right, Theo de Wit (University of Tilburg, the Netherlands) Part Four: Political Theology as Political Theory: Prospects 11. Reinhold Niebuhr and the Crisis of Liberalism: Augustinian Realism and Democratic Politics in the Age of Post-Enlightenment, Alexander Rosenthal (John Hopkins University, USA) 12. Genuine or Elitist Democracy? Christianity and Democracy in the Thought of István Bibó and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, András Csepregi (Evangelical-Lutheran Theological University, Hungary) 13. The New Political Theology as Political Theory: Johann Baptist Metz on Public Suffering, Péter Losonczi (University of West Hungary, Hungary) Bibliography Index