@article{1445002,
      recid = {1445002},
      author = {Tamimi Arab, Pooyan,},
      title = {Why do religious forms matter? : reflections on  materialism, toleration, and public reason /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {In Why Do Religious Forms Matter?, Pooyan Tamimi Arab  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 forms--in  architecture, in images, in the use of objects in rituals,  and in distinctive ways of speaking--Tamimi Arab traces to  Spinoza the material-religion approach prevalent in  anthropology and religious studies. It is in Locke's  political philosophy, however, that forms are tied to  toleration--understood as a neutrally applied civil  right--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 Rawls' ideal of  public reason, which assumes forms of discourse--religious  and non-religious--to always be several. Religious forms  thus turn out to be indispensable to liberal democracy  itself. Pooyan Tamimi Arab is Assistant Professor of  religious studies at Utrecht University. He is a board  member of the Amsterdam Spinoza Circle and member of the  Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and  Sciences.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1445002},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95779-7},
}