Karl Barth and Jürgen Habermas: transcendental aporias of global civil society

Title: Karl Barth and Jürgen Habermas: transcendental aporias of global civil society
Creator: Stanley, Timothy
Relation: Political Theology Vol. 9, Issue 4, p. 477 - 502
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/poth.v9i4.477
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: Currently, religion and globalization seem to be working towards opposite ends. As Mark Juergensmeyer has noted, while religiously invoked terrorism fragments society, the Internet, cell phones and the media industry foster the formation of an increasingly global social fabric. But religion is not a single faceted phenomenon. As much as there are prophets of violence such as Osama bin Laden, there are rophets of peace and reconciliation such as Bishop Desmond Tutu. How a civil society might be configured in relation to the inherent ambiguity surrounding religious traditions remains difficult to discern. How might Christian traditions make a positive contribution to this context? To answer this question I will articulate a dialogue between Jürgen Habermas’s theory of civil society and the politico-ethical theology of Karl Barth.
Subject: Karl Barth; Jürgen Habermas; religion; globalization; civil society; theology
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927715
Identifier: uon:10224
Identifier: ISSN:1462-317X
Language: eng
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