Constructive Critique of Religion

Mia Lövheim is Professor of Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. She is editor of Media, Religion and Gender (2013) and co-editor of Reconsidering Religion, Law, and Democracy. New Challenges for Society and Research (2016).Mikael Stenmark is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is co-editor of Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society (2018), and Naturalism and Beyond: Religious Naturalism and Its Alternatives (2016).

• Introduction: Constructive Criticism in Secular and Religiously Diverse Society, Mia Lövheim, (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Mikael Stenmark (Uppsala University, Sweden)Part One: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives1. Criticizing Religion in a Secular Democratic Society, Mikael Stenmark (Uppsala University, Sweden)2. Secular Criticism of Religion, Stephen LeDrew (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)3. Academic Feminism as Immanent Critique: Three Feminist Theological Critiques of Patriarchy,Ulf Zackariasson (Uppsala University, Sweden)4. Internal Critique in Muslim Context, Mohammad Fazlhashemi (Uppsala University, Sweden)5. Criticism and Christianity, Charles Taliaferro (St Olaf College, USA)Part Two: Law, Politics and Education6. Courts as Critics: Nuancing the Insider/Outsider Binary, Effie Fokas (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Greece)7. Framing Religious Criticism in a Secular Cultural and Legal Order: Subsidiaries to Muslim Youth Organizations, Pia Karlsson Minganti (Stockholm University, Sweden)8. Criticism of Religion in Public Commissions on Cultural and Religious Diversity,Solange Lefebvre (Université de Montreal, Canada) and Lori G. Beaman (University of Ottawa, Canada)9. The Crocodile and the Gardener: Swedish Radical Nationalism and Critique of Religion,Per-Erik Nilsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)10. Tolerance and Criticism within Religious Education, Malin Löfstedt (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Anders Sjöborg (Uppsala University, Sweden)Part Three: Civil Society, Media, and Family11.Illusive Religion in the Public Sphere: The Debate on Confessional Independent Schools in Sweden, Johan von Essen (Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College, Sweden)12. Criticizing Religion in Mediatized Debates, Linnea Jensdotter (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Mia Lövheim (Uppsala University, Sweden)13. Religious Faith, Parenting Choices and Critical Engagement, Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Ninna Edgardh (Uppsala University, Sweden)14. Postscript: Toward Constructive Criticism of Religion, Mia Lövheim, (Uppsala University, Sweden) and Mikael Stenmark (Uppsala University, Sweden)Bibliography Index

A must read for scholars and researchers in the field of religion and non-religion ... calls for an urgent and engaged conversation so that the current debate can contribute toward constructive critique in religiously diverse democratic societies