LEADER 03339nam 22005415 450 001 9910551828703321 005 20251204105116.0 010 $a9783030957797$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030957780 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-95779-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6913402 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6913402 035 $a(CKB)21351677200041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-95779-7 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921351677200041 100 $a20220304d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhy Do Religious Forms Matter? $eReflections on Materialism, Toleration, and Public Reason /$fby Pooyan Tamimi Arab 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (147 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Tamimi Arab, Pooyan Why Do Religious Forms Matter? Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030957780 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction: What Is a Religious Form? -- Chapter 2: Spinoza: Arch-Father of the Material-Religion Approach -- Chapter 3: Locke: Equal Rights to Toleration Today -- Chapter 4: Rawls: Religious Forms and Public Reason -- Chapter 5: Coda: Why Abstraction Matters. 330 $aIn Why Do Religious Forms Matter?, Pooyan Tamimi Arab reflects on the Early Modern roots and contemporary relevance of a materialist perspective on the politics of religious diversity. Taking as a starting point the insight that religions manifest in myriad sensible forms?in architecture, in images, in the use of objects in rituals, and in distinctive ways of speaking?Tamimi Arab traces to Spinoza the material-religion approach prevalent in anthropology and religious studies. It is in Locke?s political philosophy, however, that forms are tied to toleration?understood as a neutrally applied civil right?which Tamimi Arab discusses through contemporary case studies of mosque construction, amplified calls to prayer, and the right to ritual slaughter. Going beyond the Enlightenment criticism and toleration of religions, the book concludes with an inclusive reading of Rawls?s ideal of public reason, which assumes forms of discourse?religious and non-religious?to always be several. Religious forms thus turn out to be indispensable to liberal democracy itself. Pooyan Tamimi Arab is Assistant Professor of religious studies at Utrecht University. He is a board member of the Amsterdam Spinoza Circle and member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 606 $aReligion and sociology 606 $aReligion$xPhilosophy 606 $aSociology of Religion 606 $aPhilosophy of Religion 606 $aSociology of Religion 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 615 0$aReligion$xPhilosophy. 615 14$aSociology of Religion. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Religion. 615 24$aSociology of Religion. 676 $a306.6 676 $a200 700 $aTamimi Arab$b Pooyan$01209739 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910551828703321 996 $aWhy Do Religious Forms Matter$92791490 997 $aUNINA