Religions in Dialogue : From Theocracy to Democracy (Paperback)

I: Setting the Dialogical Scene; Introduction: Why Democracy and Why Three Religions?; 1: From the Age of Monologue to the Age of Global Dialogue; II: Religions in the Democratic Way; Introduction; Reflections on Judaism in the Democratic Way; 2: Democracy: A Moral Imperative in Judaism; 3: Grounding Democracy in Reverence for Life: A View from Judaism; 4: The Ambiguous State of Israel in the Modern World; Reflections on Christianity in the Democratic Way; 5: Contextual Theology and the Dialogical Building Blocks of Democracy; 6: Separating God and Caesar?; 7: Taking Democracy into a Global Ethic: The Christian Next Step; Reflections on Islam in the Democratic Way; 8: Democracy and the Concept of Shura; 9: Democracy at the Heart of Islam; 10: How Democratic is Islam?; III: Testing the Theory in Practice; Introduction; Tensions Between Religion and Democracy in Three States; 11: Indonesia: A State in Transition; 12: Turkey: A State on the Move; 13: Secular India: Striving Towards a Pluralist Ethos; Human Rights: A Testing Ground of the Religious Support for Democracy; 14: The Roots of Civil and Political Rights in the Islamic Concept of Human Being; 15: Human Dignity and Rights as Essential Values in Judaism; 16: The Complex Relationship of the Catholic Church and Human Rights; IV: The Bigger Picture; Introduction; 17: Insiders or Outsiders? Propositions for European Religions, States and Societies; 18: The Global Ethic and World Religions in an Age of Globalization; 19: Weaving Threads: Deep-Dialogue, Interreligious Encounters and Global Democracy