Academic

Between Rawls and Religion: Liberalism in a Postsecular World

LUISS University & John Cabot University, Rome

December 16-18, 2010

Speakers include:

Alessandro Ferrara (Rome)
Andrew March (Yale)
David Rasmussen (Boston College)
Johannes Van Der Ven (Nijmegen)
Maeve Cooke (Dublin)
Paul Weithman (Notre Dame)
Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt)
Peter Jonkers (Tilburg)
Samuele Sangalli (Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana)
Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS)
Stephen Macedo (Princeton)
Tariq Modood (Bristol, tbc)
Theo de Wit (Tilburg)
Micah Schwartzman (Virginia)

The International Research Network on Religion and Democracy (IRNRD), LUISS University, Rome, and John Cabot University, Rome, are pleased to announce an international conference, ?Between Rawls and Religion: Liberalism in a Postsecular World?, to be held in Rome on December 16-18, 2010.

The conference will bring together scholars in philosophy, sociology, political theory, legal theory, religious studies, and theology to discuss the problematic relationship between religion and politics in contemporary public life. It will focus particularly on John Rawls? influential treatment of liberalism in pluralist societies and on the challenges posed to such a treatment by the re-emergence of religions in public life and the development of what some have called a postsecular world.

The conference will thus consider such topics as:

? Religion in Rawls
? Political liberalism in a postsecular world
? Religious doctrines and the idea of public reason
? Religions and overlapping consensus
? Liberalism and political theology
? The philosophical and political foundations of postsecular pluralism
? Redefining the relations and boundaries between religion and public life
? Accommodating religious identities in liberal societies

Submission guidelines

A paper suitable for presentation in 20 minutes and a 500-word abstract, both prepared for blind review, should be sent by 1 October 2010 to the following email address: rawlsandreligion@johncabot.edu 

Submissions are welcome from graduate students as well as from more established scholars.

Notice of acceptance will be provided by 15 October 2010.

Selected papers will be considered for publication

Publications by the IRNRD include From Political Theory to Political Theology (Continuum, 2010), Discoursing the Postsecular (Lit, 2010), The Future of Political Theology (Ashgate), Church and State: Modernity and Beyond (Continuum), and Extra-European Perspectives on Habermas (Routledge).

Registration fee (includes conference dinner, lunches and refreshments):
Faculty ?100, Students ?50

Enquiries: rawlsandrelgion@johncabot.edu

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on September 06, 2010 (boomark / email).