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 this unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Areshidze, Giorgi, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2016]
Series:American political thought.
Subjects:
Religious pluralism > Political aspects.
Religious tolerance.
Religion and politics.
Liberalism > Religious aspects.
Democracy > Religious aspects.
Tolérance religieuse.
Religion et politique.
Libéralisme > Aspect religieux.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Democracy > Religious aspects
Liberalism > Religious aspects
Religion and politics
Religious tolerance
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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