Religion in the Public Square

Religion in the Public Square
Author:
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0585080739

This vigorous debate between two distinguished philosophers presents two views on a topic of worldwide importance: the role of religion in politics. Audi argues that citizens in a free democracy should distinguish religious and secular considerations and give them separate though related roles. Wolterstorff argues that religious elements are both appropriate in politics and indispensable to the vitality of a pluralistic democracy. Each philosopher first states his position in detail, then responds to and criticizes the opposing viewpoint. Written with engaging clarity, Religion in the Public Square will spur discussion among scholars, students, and citizens.

Liberalism’s Religion

Liberalism’s Religion
Author: Cécile Laborde
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2017-09-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674976266

Cécile Laborde argues that religion is more than a statement of belief or a moral code. It refers to comprehensive ways of life, theories of justice, modes of association, and vulnerable collective identities. By disaggregating these dimensions, she addresses questions about whether Western secularism and religion can be applied more universally.

The Limits of Liberal Democracy

The Limits of Liberal Democracy
Author: Scott H. Moore
Publisher: IVP Academic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830828937

Exploring the question of the place of religion in the modern nation-state, Scott H. Moore observes that the easy alliance between the modern liberal democracy and Christian faith in particular is showing some serious stress fractures. He offers an incisive analysis of the ways government, operating according to the ideals of a liberal democracy, has encroached on religious freedom and how the church, of both liberal and conservative leanings, has largely acquiesced. Moore offers a bracing critique of the limits of liberal democracy that calls for and points the way toward a more faithful engagement of Christians with public life--a participation that takes seriously the reality of the Christian church and both the private and public moral teachings of its Scriptures.

The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy

The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy
Author: Michael J. Perry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2010
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0521115183

This important new work elaborates and defends an account of the political morality of liberal democracy.

Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics

Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics
Author: Christopher J. Eberle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2002-05-02
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780521011556

A controversial defense of religious convictions in political activities.

Religion in a Liberal State

Religion in a Liberal State
Author: Gavin D'Costa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107042038

Leading authors in politics, law, sociology and theology discuss what the proper place of religion is in a liberal state.

Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy

Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy
Author: Jean L. Cohen
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231540736

Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.

Religious Ideas in Liberal Democratic States

Religious Ideas in Liberal Democratic States
Author: Jasper Doomen
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1793618399

Religious Ideas in Liberal Democratic States adds new context to the ongoing debate over the scope of religious freedom, drawing from a variety of perspectives to discuss the meaning of religion itself within a democratic state. This book argues that categorizing religion as a solely private affair is too narrow an interpretation and questions whether ideas like freedom, human dignity, and equality can be truly actualized in a neutral and secular state. Contributors explore the impact of religion, acknowledged or not, on legislation, human rights, and group rights through legal, historical, and sociological lenses. Scholars of constitutional law, jurisprudence, international law, and political science will find this book particularly useful.

What is Christian Democracy?

What is Christian Democracy?
Author: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1108386156

Christian Democratic actors and thinkers have been at the forefront of many of the twentieth century's key political battles - from the construction of the international human rights regime, through the process of European integration and the creation of postwar welfare regimes, to Latin American development policies during the Cold War. Yet their core ideas remain largely unknown, especially in the English-speaking world. Combining conceptual and historical approaches, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the development of this ideology in the thought and writings of some of its key intellectual and political exponents, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing he sheds light on a number of important contemporary issues, from the question of the appropriate place of religion in presumptively 'secular' liberal-democratic regimes, to the normative resources available for building a political response to the recent rise of far-right populism.