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Author : Mario Matthew Cuomo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Religious Belief and Public Morality written by Mario Matthew Cuomo and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mario Matthew Cuomo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780731655595
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Religious Belief and Public Morality written by Mario Matthew Cuomo and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Kate Sarles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (251 download)
Download or read book A Neo-aristotelian Study of Mario Cuomo's Address, "Religious Belief and Public Morality : a Catholic Governor's Perspective" written by Mary Kate Sarles and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dale McConkey
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739104835
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Faith, Morality, and Civil Society written by Dale McConkey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editors Dale McConkey and Peter Augustine Lawler explore the contributions that religious faith and morality can make to a civil society.
Author : Eamon Doyle
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 153450382X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Role of Religion in Public Policy written by Eamon Doyle and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the fundamental rights granted in the United States is religious freedom, but does this mean that religion should be entirely removed from politics or that all religious voices should be considered equally? The separation of church and state was established in the Constitution, but the fact that as of 2015, 84 percent of Americans hold some sort of religious belief means that this is easier said than done. Religious morality frequently colors debates surrounding various policy issues, ranging from reproductive rights to education. This volume exposes readers to the ways in which religion inflects policymaking and the varying perspectives about religion's role in politics.
Author : David Sehat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199793115
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book The Myth of American Religious Freedom written by David Sehat and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public life, overturning our most cherished myths. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, which had limited authority. The Protestant moral establishment ruled on the state level. Using moral laws to uphold religious power, religious partisans enforced a moral and religious orthodoxy against Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not until 1940 did the U.S. Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the states. As the Supreme Court began to dismantle the connections between religion and government, Sehat argues, religious conservatives mobilized to maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment, Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters--abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, socialist Eugene V. Debs, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the left and right, David Sehat forces us to rethink some of our most deeply held beliefs. By showing the bad history used on both sides, he denies partisans a safe refuge with the Founders.
Author : James DiCenso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139501542
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book Kant, Religion, and Politics written by James DiCenso and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a systematic examination of the place of religion within Kant's major writings. Kant is often thought to be highly reductionistic with regard to religion - as though religion simply provides the unsophisticated with colourful representations of moral lessons that reason alone could grasp. James DiCenso's rich and innovative discussion shows how Kant's theory of religion in fact emerges directly from his epistemology, ethics and political theory, and how it serves his larger political and ethical projects of restructuring institutions and modifying political attitudes towards greater autonomy. It also illustrates the continuing relevance of Kant's ideas for addressing issues of religion and politics that remain pressing in the contemporary world, such as just laws, transparency in the public sphere and other ethical and political concerns. The book will be valuable for a wide range of readers who are interested in Kant's thought.
Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521532174
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Under God? written by Michael J. Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Author : Ronald F. Inglehart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197547044
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Religion's Sudden Decline written by Ronald F. Inglehart and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Religion's Sudden Decline' provides evidence of a major decline in religion in most of the world, based on surveys of over 100 countries containing 90 percent of the world's population, carried out from 1981 to 2020 - the largest base of empirical evidence ever assembled to analyse mass acceptance or rejection of religion.--
Author : Ronald P. Hesselgrave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Public Ethics for a Pluralistic Society written by Ronald P. Hesselgrave and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674986911
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book A Secular Age written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Author : Russell D. Moore
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433686171
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Onward written by Russell D. Moore and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity Today "Beautiful Orthodoxy" Book of the Year in 2016. Keep Christianity Strange. As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that we are a Moral Majority. That may be bad news for America, but it can be good news for the church. What's needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity seems increasingly strange, and even subversive, to our culture, we have the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the gospel, which is what gives it its power in the first place. We seek the kingdom of God, before everything else. We connect that kingdom agenda to the culture around us, both by speaking it to the world and by showing it in our churches. As we do so, we remember our mission to oppose demons, not to demonize opponents. As we advocate for human dignity, for religious liberty, for family stability, let's do so as those with a prophetic word that turns everything upside down. The signs of the times tell us we are in for days our parents and grandparents never knew. But that's no call for panic or surrender or outrage. Jesus is alive. Let's act like it. Let's follow him, onward to the future.
Author : José Casanova
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022619020X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Public Religions in the Modern World written by José Casanova and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sweeping reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Jose Casanova surveys the roles that religions may play in the public sphere of modern societies. During the 1980s, religious traditions around the world, from Islamic fundamentalism to Catholic liberation theology, began making their way, often forcefully, out of the private sphere and into public life, causing the "deprivatization" of religion in contemporary life. No longer content merely to administer pastoral care to individual souls, religious institutions are challenging dominant political and social forces, raising questions about the claims of entities such as nations and markets to be "value neutral", and straining the traditional connections of private and public morality. Casanova looks at five cases from two religious traditions (Catholicism and Protestantism) in four countries (Spain, Poland, Brazil, and the United States). These cases challenge postwar—and indeed post-Enlightenment—assumptions about the role of modernity and secularization in religious movements throughout the world. This book expands our understanding of the increasingly significant role religion plays in the ongoing construction of the modern world.
Author : Kristin E. Heyer
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013971
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Prophetic and Public written by Kristin E. Heyer and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States was founded on a commitment to religious tolerance. Based on this commitment, it has become one of the most religiously diverse and religiously observant liberal democracies in the world. Inherent in this political reality is the question, "What is the appropriate relationship between religious beliefs and public life?" This is not a new question, but in contemporary US politics it has become a particularly insistent one. In this intelligent, wide-ranging book, Kristin Heyer provides new and nuanced answers. Prophetic and Public employs the discourse of public theology to consider what constitutes appropriate religio-political engagement. According to Heyer, public theology connects religious faith, concepts, and practices to their public relevance for the wider society. Her use of public theology concepts to address the appropriate possibilities and limits for religio-political engagement in the United States is both useful and enlightening. Heyer approaches the relationship between public morality and religious commitment through the example of the Catholic Church. She looks at two prominent Catholics—Michael Baxter and Bryan Hehir—as a way of discussing norms for practice of public theology. Heyer also analyzes case studies of three US Catholic advocacy groups: The US Conference of Catholic Bishops, NETWORK, and Pax Christi USA. Through her analysis she shows the various ways that the organizations' Catholic identity impacts their social and political efforts. From her investigations come norms that define possibilities and limits for political actions based on religious conviction. This deeply thoughtful book examines what is truly fundamental and inescapable about public life and private religious belief in the United States. In doing so, it makes skillful use of the tools of theology, philosophy, law, and advocacy to demonstrate that the Catholic Church reveals great diversity in its public theology, providing legitimate options for a faithful response to urgent political issues.
Author : Stephen T. Asma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190469692
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Why We Need Religion written by Stephen T. Asma and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues that, like art, religion has direct access to our emotional lives in ways that science does not. Yes, science can give us emotional feelings of wonder and the sublime--we can feel the sacred depths of nature--but there are many forms of human suffering and vulnerability that are beyond the reach of help from science. Different emotional stresses require different kinds of rescue. Unlike secular authors who praise religion's ethical and civilizing function, Asma argues that its core value lies in its emotionally therapeutic power. No theorist of religion has failed to notice the importance of emotions in spiritual and ritual life, but truly systematic research has only recently delivered concrete data on the neurology, psychology, and anthropology of the emotional systems. This very recent "affective turn" has begun to map out a powerful territory of embodied cognition. Why We Need Religion incorporates new data from these affective sciences into the philosophy of religion. It goes on to describe the way in which religion manages those systems--rage, play, lust, care, grief, and so on. Finally, it argues that religion is still the best cultural apparatus for doing this adaptive work. In short, the book is a Darwinian defense of religious emotions and the cultural systems that manage them.
Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195130952
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Religion in Politics written by Michael J. Perry and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religion in Politics, Michael Perry addresses a fundamental question: what role may religious arguments play, if any, either in public debate about what political choices to make or as a basis of political choice?
Author : Stephen Delacroix
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977088628
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (886 download)
Download or read book The Deep Simple written by Stephen Delacroix and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can an opinion become a fact? On what grounds can a religious belief be publicly defended? Can science direct our public moral pursuits? What differentiates authority from expertise? Are justice and love compatible? What could distinguish a moral reason from one that is merely useful? Do human rights exist, and if they do, what are they? Can we answer any of these questions in our public declarations?The argument of The Deep Simple is that these kind of foundational questions can have no consensual answers until thoughtful persons agree to the meanings of the terms they use to ask them. And that is unlikely to happen because two great epistemological crises have scrambled the unexamined assumptions that persons bring to their declarations and the warrants they use to justify them. Three broad cultural traditions now contend for public approval as reliable guarantors of truth. The pre-modernist trusts authority and considers institutions formative, values beliefs as sources of public commitment, questions rational and moral agency, and embraces principles of subsidiarity. The modernist endorses universal reasoning applied to private experience, considers institutions informative and beliefs speculative, and endorses empirical science. The postmodernist doubts the universality of reason and elevates the privacy of experience, considers interactions with institutions to be performative opportunities to demonstrate independence, elevates the radical equality of belief, and seeks aesthetic validation of public policy. As these three streams twist and emulsify in popular culture, they stimulate a recourse to politicization of declarations, correctly identifying law as the final arbiter of public order in the absence of epistemological consensus. The Deep Simple closely examines the intellectual roots of this fraying of the social fabric, finding it in religious authoritarianism and political contractarianism, in empirical positivism and post-structuralist phenomenalism, from Aquinas to Foucault and from Hobbes to Rawls. Its reader is assumed to be the well-read generalist concerned about alternative facts and fake news and the endlessly deferred answer to the question of how to judge, or even consider, what lies between the true and the false and the true and the good in public life.It explores issues like these:--Where is the border between private belief and public knowledge, and how does a game of Clue help us distinguish justified knowledge from permissible beliefs?--Why must empirical science fail to provide public moral guidance, and how can its methodology assist us in finding what can?--How have the human sciences hindered the search for human rights?--What are the limits of expertise?--Why have institutions lost their power to promote public consensus?--Why is appropriateness an inadequate cultural standard and why is empathy an inadequate moral one?--How do Biblical narratives undercut their authoritarian axiom?--How do Thoreau and King's arguments for civil disobedience exemplify our epistemological confusion?--Why is social contract an inherently unjust foundation for democratic government?--Why are the positions of libertarians and egalitarians detrimental to moral consensus?--Why are love and justice the proper determinants of private and public moral pursuits?--Why is felt preferential freedom the inerrant source of human dignity and law?
