Robert Audi

Religious Commitment and Secular Reason

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An examination of the relations between religion and politics in a modern, secular society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780521772600
• ISBN-10: 0521772605
• Artikelnr.: 22306587

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Foundations of Democracy and the Separation of Church and
State: 1. The plurality of paths to Liberal democracy; 2. The separation of
church and State; 3. Church-State separation and the justification of
Governmental power; Part II. The Ethics of Citizenship and the Balance of
Religious and Political Arguments: 4. Religious convictions and secular
reasons; 5. Religion and ethics: toward integration; Part III. Civic Virtue
and Political Activism in a Religiously Pluralistic Democracy: 6. Civic
virtue; 7. Religious conviction and political activism; 8. Conclusion:
ethics, reason, and democracy.