Civil Religion: A Dialogue in the History of Political Philosophy

by Ronald Beiner

Book Overview

Civil Religion offers philosophical commentaries on more than twenty thinkers stretching from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. It examines four important traditions within the history of modern political philosophy. The civil religion tradition, principally defined by Machiavelli, Hobbes and Rousseau, seeks to domesticate religion by putting it solidly in the service of politics. The liberal tradition pursues an alternative strategy of domestication...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521738431
• ISBN13: 9780521738439
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"