Open AccessReligious Foundations of Civil Society
Author(s) -
Wendy M. Heller
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of bahá'í studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0838-0430
DOI - 10.31581/jbs-10.3-4.450(2000
Subject(s) - covenant , foundation (evidence) , order (exchange) , perspective (graphical) , civil society , environmental ethics , corporate governance , sociology , epistemology , social order , law , political science , philosophy , management , finance , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science , economics
This article (part 2 of 2) explores, from a Bahá’í perspective, the loss of a transcendent ethical basis as a central problem of modern social theory. It discusses religion as the source of society’s moral foundations and its organizing principles of order, law, and governance. Implications are drawn for the potential of religion’s most enduring core concept, that of covenant, to provide the unifying foundation for a just, caring, and tolerant global social order.