Payrow Shabani, Omid
Omid Payrow Shabani is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph. In general, he has been interested in bridging the gap between the theoretical framework of critical theorists and liberal nationalists in order to be able to address concrete questions of policy making in multicultural societies from the normative perspective of constitutional patriotism. Currently, Dr. Shabani has become interested the ascending role of religion in politics and what it implies for basic tenets of liberalism like the state/church separation principle and the idea of public reason. In this connection he is interested in what form this problematic has taken in the EU’s member-states like France and Germany.
Research Interests: Social and Political Philosophy, Theories of Justice and democracy, Critical theory, Minority rights, and European Union
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Guelph |
| Fields of Expertise: | Civil Society Cultural Diversity, Integration and Multiculturalism Democracy and Political Participation Ethics and Political Philosophy EU Policies EU Politics |
| Research groups: | Democracy/Populism/Nationalism |
| Email: | oshabani@uoguelph.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, Farsi, French, Italien |
| Publications: | Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy, eds. Omid Payrow Shabani and Monique Deveaux, Oxford University Press, 2014 "To be a Courtier in the Islamic Republic of Iran," Political Theory, 43/4 (2015) pp. 427-450. "Taking Religious Voices in the Public Sphere Seriously?," The Procedddings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy in Athens. "The Green’s Non-violent Ethos: The Roots of Non-Violence in the Iranian Democratic Movement,” Constellations, 20/2 (2013) pp. 347-360. “The Emerging Non-violence Ethos in the Iranian Protest Movement,” Proceedings of the 25th World Congress of the International Association of Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR), Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2012. The Role of Religion in Democratic Politics: Tolerance and the Boundary of Public Reason," Religious Education, 106/3, 2011, pp. 332-346. Reading Habermas in Iran: Political Tolerance and the Prospect of Non-violent Movement in Iran," Journal of Global Ethics, Volume 6 Issue 2, 2010, pp. 141-151. |
