Secular Cosmopolitanism, Hospitality, and Religious Pluralism

Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. He is the author of The Bloomsbury Companion to Political Philosophy (2015), and the 8th edition of Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues with Barbara MacKinnon (2014). Fiala also writes a weekly column for the Fresno Bee.

• 1. Introduction: From Civility to HospitalityPART I: The Logic of Diversity And a Pragmatic Philosophy of Religion2. One, None, Many: The Logic of Religion3. The Golden Rule of Hospitality, Agnosticism, and the Pluralistic Wager4. Naïve Religion and Philosophical Critique5. Should an Atheist Take Communion? Good Will, Kindness, Testimony, and Truth6. Pragmatic and Poly-Theistic Philosophy of ReligionPART II: Explorations in the Depth of Diversity7. Toward a Secular Cosmopolitan Soteriology8. Love, Liberty, and The Good Samaritan9. Human Rights, Theocentrism, and Religious Diversity10. Militant Atheism, Pragmatism, and the God-Shaped HolePART III: Hospitality and A Secular Cosmopolitan Ethic11. Hospitality, Civil Dialogue, and Cosmopolitanism12. Solidarity, Play, and the Pluralistic Wager13. Ethics for a Secular Cosmopolitan World

"In the wake of growing secularism alongside increasing fundamentalism, Dr. Fiala offers a sound, reasoned, thoughtful—and above all, ethical—vision of how we can live in a more tolerant, hospitable world." —Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College, USA