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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lawrence, Kansas :
University Press of Kansas,
[2016]
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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.