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Sustainable Governance in a Postsecular Public Sphere

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

Bibliographic Data

ID12307232
AuthorsChris Baker (0000-0001-7572-1871, University of Chester/William Temple Foundation UK, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume24
Issue3
Pages190-198
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSustainable Development (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0968-0802 • E-ISSN: 1099-1719
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/sd.1621
OpenAlexW2471294111
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

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

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Unique citing works2
Citations per year0,2
Citation span2016 - 2019 (4)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 2
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