Contribution to Book
Reason Within the Bounds of Religion: Assmann, Cohen, and the Possibilities of Monotheism
Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology
(2013)
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed many actions, often violent and xenophobic, explicitly rooted in monotheistic intolerance. Perhaps, then, it should not be surprising that many secular-minded critics view monotheistic religions as not much more than intractable problems for democratic societies. Indeed, for such critics, the respective ages and histories of these traditions are not to be esteemed. Rather, these religions are simply primitive, and so they require domestication (or annihilation) by liberal values. Looking around the world today, one often wonders if it is even possible for modern sensibilities to be reconciled, or even to coexist, with the Abrahamic monotheisms and their non-rational notions of election and revelation?
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter December 5, 2013
Editor
Randi Rashkover and Martin Kavka
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN
978-0253010322
Publisher Statement
Posted here with permission from Indiana University Press, Scholarly Publishing, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/.
Citation Information
Robert Erlewine. "Reason Within the Bounds of Religion: Assmann, Cohen, and the Possibilities of Monotheism" PaperbackBloomingtonJudaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert_erlewine/15/