Cosmoipolitan Justice: The Axial Age, Multiple Modernities, and the Postsecular Turn

by Jonathan Bowman and Jonathan M. Bowman

Book Overview

This book assesses the rapid transformation of the political agency of religious groups within transnational civil society under the conditions of globalization that have weakened the sovereign nation-state. It offers a comprehensive synthesis of the parallel resurgences of Jasper's axial thesis from the distinct lines of research initiated by Eisenstadt, Habermas, Taylor, Bellah, and others. It explores the concept of cosmoipolitanism from the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331912708X
• ISBN13: 9783319127088
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"