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Democratic religion from Locke to Obama : faith and the civic life of democracy /

Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faith-even as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy. How these seemingly contradictory impulses can coexist-and whether this unde...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Areshidze, Giorgi, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Colección:American political thought.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Religion and the Post-Enlightenment Liberalism of John Rawls
  • Barack Obama's Civic Faith: A Post-Christian Civil Religion or Rawls's Public Reason?
  • Does Toleration Require Religious Skepticism? An Examination of Locke's Teaching on Toleration
  • Lincoln's Religious Statesmanship and Rawls's "Public Reason": Slavery and Biblical Theology in the Civil War
  • The Theological Foundations of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Racial Equality and Civil Disobedience
  • Can Liberalism Appropriate the Moral Contents of Religion? Habermas and Tocqueville on Religious Transformation and Democracy's Civic Life.