ABSTRACT

This chapter challenges the links between secularism and cosmopolitanism. It evaluates different modes of interreligious dialogue, including those based on theology and perennial philosophy. It then lays out a deep cosmopolitan account that insists on the vitality of the particular traditions while imagining how they might be reconciled to a common global political project. This argument includes an explicit contrast with Rawlsian political liberalism as a mode of coexistence.