This article considers imperial Roman and German forms of liberal elite consensus on “proper religious diversity” to set the stage for an examination of the contemporary form of liberal consensus discernible in a recent public talk given by Charles Taylor and Rowan Williams. In each case, attention is drawn to the ways in which “proper religious diversity” is defined to serve ideological and theological agendas. Romanitas, Germanentum, and the Taylor–Williams consensus are cannibalistic theological systems: each uses a public stance of reasonable openmindedness regarding “proper religious diversity” to build and police a theological position that arrogates the perceived value of selected “religious” traditions by re-making them in its own image. Imperial Romanitas and Germanentum served in this way to absorb a diversity of traditions deemed palatable and digestible into overarching theological visions which were convenient to those in power. When Taylor and Williams use the platform of Religious Studies to promote the modern liberal view of “diversity in (true) religion” as a source of pro-social order, their efforts serve a similar crypto-theological and imperialist project.

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不谦虚的提议：习得自由主义共识作为一种同类相食的神学体系

本文认为，对“适当的宗教多样性”自由主义精英共识的罗马帝国和德国的形式，设置了阶段为自由舆论可辨别的当代形式的查尔斯·泰勒和罗文·威廉姆斯给最近的一次公开谈话检查。在每一种情况下，注意力被吸引到其中，“适当的宗教多样性”被定义为服务于思想和神学议程的方式。Romanitas，Germanentum和泰勒 - 威廉姆斯的共识是吃人的神学体系：每个使用的关于“适当的宗教多样性”合理openmindedness一个公开的立场建立和警察神学立场，即重新选择愁思“宗教”传统的感知价值使他们在自己的形象。帝国Romanitas和Germanentum以这种方式来吸收视为可口易消化为压倒一切都是哪些方便的当权者神学异象传统的多样性服务。当泰勒和威廉姆斯利用宗教研究的平台，促进“在（真实）宗教多样性”作为亲社会秩序的根源的现代自由主义的观点，他们的努力起到类似的加密神学和帝国主义的项目。