Religion And The Obligations Of Citizenship
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Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship
Author | : Paul J. Weithman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2002-08-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781139433990 |
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In Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship Paul J. Weithman asks whether citizens in a liberal democracy may base their votes and their public political arguments on their religious beliefs. Drawing on empirical studies of how religion actually functions in politics, he challenges the standard view that citizens who rely on religious reasons must be prepared to make good their arguments by appealing to reasons that are 'accessible' to others. He contends that churches contribute to democracy by enriching political debate and by facilitating political participation, especially among the poor and minorities, and as a consequence, citizens acquire religiously based political views and diverse views of their own citizenship. He concludes that the philosophical view which most defensibly accommodates this diversity is one that allows ordinary citizens to draw on the views their churches have formed when voting and offering public arguments for their political positions.
Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith
Author | : Nancy L. Rosenblum |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 447 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780691228242 |
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Of the many challenges facing liberal democracy, none is as powerful and pervasive today as those posed by religion. These are the challenges taken up in Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary public life. The essays in this volume suggest that two important shifts have altered the balance between the competing obligations of citizenship and faith: the growth of religious pluralism and the escalating calls of religious groups for some measure of autonomy or recognition from democratic majorities. The authors--political theorists, philosophers, legal scholars, and social scientists--collectively argue that more room should be made for religion in today's democratic societies. Though they advocate different ways of carving out and justifying the proper bounds of "church and state" in pluralist democracies, they all write from within democratic theory and share the aim of democratic accommodation of religion. Alert to national differences in political circumstances and the particularities of constitutional and legal systems, these contributors consider the question of religious accommodation from the standpoint of institutional practices and law as well as that of normative theory. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and comparative focus, this volume makes a timely and much-needed intervention in current debates about religion and politics. The contributors are Nancy L. Rosenblum, Alan Wolfe, Ronald Thiemann, Michael McConnell, Graham Walker, Amy Gutmann, Kent Greenawalt, Aviam Soifer, Harry Hirsch, Gary Jacobsohn, Yael Tamir, Martha Nussbaum, and Carol Weisbrod.
Religion Citizenship and Democracy
Author | : Alexander Unser |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2022-01-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9783030832773 |
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This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship. The researchers contributing provide empirical evidence on how religion influences attitudes towards citizenship and democracy in different countries. The book also tackles the challenges and opportunities for citizenship education. Experts contributing from sociology, political science, theology, and educational science look at the impact of religious beliefs and practices on democratic attitudes and behavior. Chapters also concern how religion influences the recognition of others as citizens. The text appeals to graduates and researchers in these fields with a secondary market for the general interest reader.
Global Citizenship Cultural Citizenship and World Religions in Religion Education
Author | : David Chidester |
Publsiher | : HSRC Press |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Citizenship |
ISBN | : 079692077X |
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Resurrecting Democracy
Author | : Luke Bretherton |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781107030398 |
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This book assesses the construction of citizenship as an identity, a performance, and a shared rationality.
Religion and Democratic Citizenship
Author | : J. Caleb Clanton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : UOM:39015074237739 |
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Polls indicate that many, if not most, Americans think that their religion should play some sort of role in the political arena. But are they misguided? When citizens allow their religious convictions to filter into the political sphere, are they acting as bad citizens? In a pluralistic democracy such as ours, what is the proper relationship between religion and politics? Religion and Democratic Citizenship critically examines a variety of proposals to address the question of whether and how religion should influence the activities of the American public square, from public deliberation to voting. These proposals commonly fall into two broad types of familiar strategies. On the one hand, mainstream liberal political theorists like John Rawls and others seek to keep religion and politics largely separate. On the other hand, pragmatists like William James, John Dewey, and Cornel West seek to reinterpret the meaning of religion itself so that it can be rendered compatible with democracy. Religion and Democratic Citizenship outlines the shortcomings of both of these strategies and aims to reframe the nature of the debate concerning the proper relationship between religion and politics by offering a useful framework for further discussion. Drawing influence from both Socrates and C. S. Peirce, the author proposes a model of the deliberative democracy designed to accommodate as many democratically predisposed citizens as possible, whether they are religious or not. In so doing, this book ultimately offers a strategy to accommodate religious participation in the activities of the democratic public square -- a strategy that enables citizens to employ religious reasoning and meet the epistemic obligations of good deliberative democratic citizenship. Readers of this book will include researchers interested in Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, and Theology, as well as teachers, students, politicians, clergy, and concerned citizens.
Citizenship A Very Short Introduction
Author | : Richard Bellamy |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2008-09-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780192802538 |
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Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue.
Citizen Christians
Author | : Robert L. Cate |
Publsiher | : B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0805412379 |
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