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Why Do Religious Forms Matter?: Reflections on Materialism, Toleration, and Public Reason

By (author) Pooyan Tamimi Arab

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In Why Do Religious Forms Matter?, Pooyan Tamimi ArabÂ 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 formsâ€”in architecture, in images, in the use of objects in rituals, and in distinctive ways of speakingâ€”Tamimi Arab traces to Spinoza the material-religion approach prevalent in anthropology and religious studies. It is in Lockeâ€™s political philosophy, however, that forms are tied to tolerationâ€”understood as a neutrally applied civil rightâ€”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 Rawlsâ€™s ideal of public reason, which assumes forms of discourseâ€”religious and non-religiousâ€”to always be several. Religious forms thus turn out to be indispensable to liberal democracy itself.

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