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Religion can act as a positive force in its moral renewal, by helping to shape common cultural values. Author: Ronald F. Thiemann. Title: Religion in Public Life. Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality. Publisher: Georgetown University Press.

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Prayer in public schools, abortion, gay and lesbian rights - these bitterly divisive issues dominate American politics today, revealing deep disagreements over basic moral values. In a highly readable account that draws on legal arguments, political theory, and philosophy, Ronald F. Thiemann explores the proper role of religious convictions in American public life. He proposes that religion can and should play an active, positive part in our society even as it maintains a fundamental commitment to pluralist, democratic values. Arguing that both increased secularism and growing religious diversity since the 1960s have fragmented commonly held values, Thiemann observes that there has been an historical ambivalence in American attitudes towards religion in public life. He proposes abandoning the idea of an absolute wall between church and state and all the conceptual framework built around that concept in interpreting the first amendment. He returns instead to James Madison's views and the Constitutional principles of liberty, equality, and toleration. Refuting both political liberalism (as too secular) and communitarianism (as failing to meet the challenge of pluralism), Thiemann offers a new definition of liberalism that gives religions a voice in the public sphere as long as they heed the Constitutional principles of liberty, equality, and toleration or mutual respect. The American republic, Thiemann tes, is a constantly evolving experiment in constructing a pluralistic society from its many particular communities. Religion can act as a positive force in its moral renewal, by helping to shape common cultural values. All those interested in finding solutions to today's divisive political discord, in finding ways to disagree civilly in a democracy, and in exploring the extent to which religious convictions should shape the development of public policies will find that this book offers an important new direction for religion and the nation.

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Publisher
Georgetown University Press
GTIN
9780878406104
ISBN-10
0878406107
ISBN-13
9780878406104
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Author
Ronald F. Thiemann
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government & Constitution
Publication Year
1996
Type
Religion

Dimensions

Weight
313g
Depth
11 mm
Height
229mm
Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Washington, DC
Spine
11mm
Regional Cuisine
American
Subjects
Philosophy
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Era
1960s
Publisher's Status
Active
Author Biography
Ronald F. Thiemann is a professor of Theology and of Religion & Society at Harvard Divinity School. He is author of Toward an American Public Theology: The Church in a Pluralistic Culture (Westminster-John Knox Press, 1991) and Revelation and Theology: The Gospel as Narrated Promise (University of Notre Dame Press, 1985).
Topic
Theology, Rights, Government, Political Theory, Religion, Rights,Religion,Culture,Politics,Government,Political Theory,Society,Theology,Constitution, Politics, Society, Culture, Constitution
Date of Publication
01/01/1996
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Government & Constitution

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