Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order

John M. Owen IV is associate professor of politics and faculty fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He is author of Liberal Peace, Liberal War and The Clash of Ideas in World Politics and lives with his wife and three children in Charlottesville, Virginia. J. Judd Owen is associate professor of political science and a senior fellow at the center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. He is the author of Religion and the Demise of Liberal Rationalism and is finishing a book on the Enlightenment's project of religious transformation. He lives with his wife and two children in Decatur, Georgia.

• Acknowledgments Part 1. The Enlightenment Revisited: Theoretical Questions 1. Religion, the Enlightenment. and the New Global Order, by John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen 2. Religious Violence or Religious Pluralism: The Essential Choice, by William A. Galston 3. Religion, Enlightenment, and a Common Good, by Jean Bethke Elshtain 4. How and Why the West Has Lost Confidence in Its Foundational Political Principles, by Thomas L. Pangle Part 2. The Enlightenment, Secularity, and the Religions 5. The Enlightenment Project, Spinoza, and the Jews, by David Novak 6. Puritan Sources of Enlightenment Liberty, by John Witte Jr. 7. India: The Politics of Religious Reform and Conflict, by Pratap Bhanu Mehta 8. Reason and Revelation in Islamic Political Ethics, by Abdulaziz Sachedina 9. Islam, Constitutionalism, and Liberal Democracy, by Sohail H. Hashmi 10. The Identity of the Christian Democratic Movement and Theory of Democracy, by Roberto Papini 11. Concluding Thoughts, by John M. Owen IV and J. Judd Owen Contributors Index