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

• Main Author: Bowman, Jonathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Studies in Global Justice, 15
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Religion > Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Political philosophy.; Philosophy, Asian.; Private international law.; Conflict of laws.; International law.; Comparative law.; Political Philosophy.; Political Science.; Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law.; Philosophy of Religion.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.; Non-Western Philosophy.

This book assesses the rapid transformation of the political agency of religious groups within transnational civil society under conditions of globalization weakening sovereign nation-states. It offers a synthesis of the resurgence of Jasper’s axial thesis from distinct lines of research initiated b...