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The authors span the political and religious spectrum... This well-documented collection demonstrates that a secular state can thrive even when its citizenry is deeply committed religiously, albeit to diverse ways of being religious. This book will be valuable to those interested in the role of religion in public life, in both historical and contemporary terms.
These essays, written by experts of all faiths, offer informative insights and even inspiration.
The contributors here are the right people to push a diverse debate.
A very fine collection of essays by scholars on differing aspects of religion's public presence... If you want to read one volume on the role of religion in public life, this is the current front-runner.
This impressive study... is grounded on the premise that religion is inevitably public in a political sense... must be only the beginning of the never-ending quest to discover the answer to a burning question, which is likely to be the foremost issue facing the American nation in the years to come.
This thoughtful book makes a large contribution toward bestirring the hostile and the indifferent to the intellectual power and seriousness of what José Casanova calls 'public religion'... If you believe, as I do, that we are at a new stage in our great national debate over religious liberty, these essays provide an immensely useful step forward.
The contributors comprise a truly dazzling array of talent. They are precisely the ones one would want to read for insight into the difficult but crucial questions regarding the relationship between religion and public policy.
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Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
408
ISBN
9780801871955
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Table of Contents
Part I: The Big Picture
1. An Introduction to Religion and Public Policy
2. Two Concepts of Secularism
3. The Religious Conscience and the State in American Constitutional Law, 1789-2000
4. What is a
Part I: The Big Picture
1. An Introduction to Religion and Public Policy
2. Two Concepts of Secularism
3. The Religious Conscience and the State in American Constitutional Law, 1789-2000
4. What is a Public Religion?
Part II: Religion in Political Action5. Faith and Morals: Religion in American Democracy
6. Faith in Politics
7. Mainstream Protestantism, 'Conservative' Religion, and Civil Society D. G. Hart
Part III: Policy Applications8. American Catholicism, Catholic Charities U.S.A., and Welfare Reform
9. Charitable Choice: Bringing Religion Back into American Welfare
10. Public Education Changes Partners
11. With God on Their Side: Religion and American Foreign Policy
