Recognition and Religion

This book focuses on recognition and its relation to religion and theology in both systematic and historical dimensions. While existing research literature on recognition and contemporary recognition theory has been gradually growing since the early 1990s certain gaps remain in the field covered so far. One of these is the multifaceted interaction between the phenomena of recognition and religion. Since recognition applies to persons institutions and normative entities like systems of beliefs it also provides a very useful analytic and interpretative tool for studying religion. Divided into five sections with chapters written by established scholars in their respective fields the book explores the roots history and limits of recognition theory in the context of religious belief. Exploring early Christian and medieval sources on recognition and religion it also offers contemporary applications of this underexplored combination. This is a timely book as debates over religious identities problematic forms of extremism and societal issues related with multiculturalism continue to dominate the media and politics. It will therefore be of great interest to scholars of recognition studies as well as religious studies theology philosophy and religious and intellectual history. . Language: English