Call for Papers
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, tbc)
David Rasmussen (Boston College)
Johannes Van Der Ven (Nijmegen)
Maeve Cooke (Dublin)
Paul Weithman (Notre Dame)
Peter Jonkers (Tilburg)
Samuele Sangalli (Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana)
Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS)
Stephen Macedo (Princeton)
Tariq Modood (Bristol, tbc)
Theo de Wit (Tilburg)
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
Scholars and graduate students wishing to present papers on these or related topics are invited to submit abstracts to the organising committee.
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: infophd@luiss.it
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: infophd@luiss.it