Book Summary
Why are religious tolerance and pluralism so difficult to achieve? Why isthe often violent fundamentalist backlash against them so potent? Robert Erlewinelooks to a new religion of reason for answers to these questions. Drawing onEnlightenment writers Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, and Hermann Cohen, whoplaced Christianity and Judaism in tension with tolerance and pluralism, Erlewinefinds a way to break the impasse, soften hostilities, and establish equalrelationships with the Other. Erlewine's recovery of a religion of reason stands incontrast both to secularist critics of religion who reject religion for the sake ofreason and to contemporary religious conservatives who eschew reason for the sake ofreligion. Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractableproblem of religiously motivated and justified violence.
Book Details
| Book Name | Monotheism And Tolerance: Recovering A Religion Of Reason |
| Author | Robert Erlewine |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (Jan 2010) |
| ISBN | 9780253221568 |
| Pages | 246 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 968 |
