Recognition and Religion A Historical and Systematic Study

distinctive identities through political processes, they are, because of this, less segregated and have more mutual accountabili ...

The third mode is that of esteem, a recognition that emerges through the distinctive achievements of an individual. The achieve- ...

Honneth’s claim of heteronomy reduces the subject and the person to a mere cluster of interactions. On the one hand, Honneth is ...

is legitimate. Fraser does not, however, renounce the idea of recog- nition completely, seeking to construct it in a non-psychol ...

have already seen how Taylor and Honneth understand the modern idea of recognition as emerging with Hegel, replacing the old ide ...

A gives a kind of surrogate of herself to B. Such an act calls for reciprocity in which B consents to receive the gift and prepa ...

which no ceremonial gift moderates the situation. The spirit of the ceremonial gift manages to dissolve the conflictual relation ...

struggle needs an alternative in which a peaceful experience of mutual recognition can emerge.^47 Ricoeur wants to outline a pea ...

For Ricoeur, the notion ofagapein particular gives his treatment of recognition a Christian dimension. For both Hénaff and Ricoe ...

uses Jacques Derrida’s view of the difference that persists between gifts and economic exchange.^54 All these theorists make an ...

sides recognize one another in this process. This is the most common point of departure shared by Hegelian and phenomenological ...

oughts, values or principles as valid differs from recognition of persons in various ways—for one thing, the former do not have ...

such as recognizing the truth or recognizing baptism, can be pro- ductively analysed either in terms of (ii) acknowledgement per ...

reason, we will focus in what follows on works that investigate the notion of recognition in some detail. Thomas Schmidt has con ...

Christian doctrine as a conversation partner of the theories of recog- nition. Hoffmann has a clear theoretical preference, empl ...

Hoffmann applies these features to the Roman Catholic–Protestant controversies on the theology of justification. As a Roman Cath ...

enter into a relationship in which he or she can receive other gifts and circulate them.^80 In this sense, forensic justificatio ...

French and Latin as well) is discussed. Chapter 4 draws systematic conclusions from the religious texts and formulates some new ...

the conceptions of sexuality and gender in ancient times, although these concepts do not occur in the Greco-Roman world. However ...

Whether the Greek terms genuinely allow for conceptual differenti- ation is a matter to be discussed in the next chapter. Thus, ...