Democratic Religion from Locke to Obama : Faith and the Civic Life of Democracy /

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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 thi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Areshidze, Giorgi, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Obama, Barack > 1961-
Locke, John > 1632-1704
Religion
Liberalismus
Demokratie
Christentum
Religious tolerance.
Religion and politics.
Liberalism > Religious aspects.
Democracy > Religious aspects.
RELIGION / Christianity.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
Tolerance religieuse.
Religion et politique.
Liberalisme > Aspect religieux.
Religious pluralism > Political aspects.
USA
Electronic books.
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
  • Conclusion: Toleration, democratic religion, and America's civic life.

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