Sustainable Governance in a Postsecular Public Sphere

Re‐assessing the Role of Religion as a Cosmopolitan Policy Actor in a Diverse and Globalized Age

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12307232
AutoresChris Baker (0000-0001-7572-1871, University of Chester/William Temple Foundation UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2016
Volumen24
Número3
Páginas190-198
Fecha de publicación2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSustainable Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0968-0802 • E-ISSN: 1099-1719
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sd.1621
OpenAlexW2471294111
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas12

This article nuances debates about the role and contribution of religion to sustainable forms of governance in respect of current policy and political debates. It lays out some of the definitional terms of reference around governance and sustainable development. It then locates these debates within a series of wider, interdisciplinary frameworks (primarily political philosophy, sociology, political geography and public theology), including concepts such as cosmopolitanism, the postsecular, progressive localism and spiritual and social capital. These concepts recognize the changing boundaries between the religious and secular in the public sphere. The article locates some of these theoretical discourses within two case studies of performative cosmopolitan religious governance and analyses their methodology and impact within the terms of governance and sustainable development. It concludes that performative spaces of religiously framed welfare provision and civic engagement potentially offer important pointers as to principles and structures of what sustainable governance looks like in complex, diverse and increasingly fragmented polities and localities. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

Corporate governance · Cosmopolitanism · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Localism · Multi-level governance · Performative utterance · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Secularism · Social science · Sociology · Sustainable development · Law · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Religion, Society, and Development