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Reaping the whirlwind : liberal democracy and the religious axis /

As early as the sixteenth century the liberal democratic state has been forced to confront the question of religion in politics. The result has been a tense and uncomfortable balancing act. Today, in the public square of liberal democracy, a number of religious confessions and beliefs compete for at...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pottenger, John R., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Religion and politics series (Georgetown University)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Mixing religion and politics : the case of the Ten commandments
  • Religion, history, and logic: the genetic fallacy
  • Axes of history : abandoning the universal Christian commonwealth
  • The religious axis : rationality, conscience, and liberty
  • Constitutional protection : America, religious liberty, and the factional imperative
  • Mormons and evangelicals : uneasy coalitions in the public square
  • Liberation theology's methodological insurgency : confronting liberal democracy
  • Islam and the state : modifying liberal democracy
  • Christian reconstructionism : defying the religious axis
  • The end of civil society.