Stephen V. Monsma

Pluralism and Freedom

Faith-Based Organizations in a Democratic Society

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all these efforts, however, have been accompanied by intense debate and numerous legal challenges. The right of faith-based organizations to hire based on religion, the presence of religious symbols and icons in rooms where government-subsidized services are provided, and the enforcement of gay civil rights to which some faith-based organizations object all continue to be subjects of intense debate and numerous court cases. In Pluralism and Freedom, Stephen V. Monsma explores the question of how much autonomy should faith-based organizations retain when they enter the public realm? He contends that pluralism and freedom demand their religious freedom be respected, but that freedom of all religious traditions and of the general public and secular groups be equally respected, ideals that neither the left nor the right live up to. In response, Monsma argues that democratic pluralism requires a genuine, authentic-but also a limited-autonomy for faith-based organizations providing public services, and offers practical, concrete public policy applications of this framework in practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781442214309
• ISBN-10: 1442214309
• Artikelnr.: 33934151

Autorenporträt

Stephen V. Monsma is a senior research fellow at the Henry Institute, Calvin College, and professor of political science emeritus at Pepperdine University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Chapter 1: The Issue that Will Not Go Away Diversity, Pluralism,
and Autonomy Two Sets of Questions A Conflict of Theoretical Concepts The
Plan of the Book Chapter 2: Faith-Based Organizations and the Network of
Human Services Faith-Based Organizations in the Nonprofit and Voluntary
Sector International Emergency Relief and Long-Term Development Faith-Based
Organizations in International Relief and Development The Added Value of
Faith-Based and Other Nongovernmental Organizations. The Role of Faith in
Faith-Based Organizations. Adoption and Foster Care Services Faith-Based
Organizations in Adoption and Foster Care Services The Added Value of
Faith-Based Organizations. The Role of Faith in Faith-Based Organizations.
The Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (MPRI) Faith-Based Organizations
in the MPRI. The Added Value of Faith-Based Organizations The Role of Faith
in Faith-Based Organizations. Conclusions Chapter 3: The Seedbeds of
Attitudes towards Faith-Based Organizations The Liberal Enlightenment, the
Founding Era, and the Young Nation The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment in
Europe The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment and the American Founders
Religion in the Founding Era and the Young Nation The Legacy of the
Founding Era and the Young Nation The Supreme Court, Church-State
Relations, and Faith-Based Organizations The Strict Separation,
No-Aid-to-Religion Standard The Equal Treatment, Neutrality Standard The
Accommodationist Standard The Continuing Strength of the Strict Separation,
No-Aid-to-Religion Standard The Inadequacy of the Strict Separation,
No-Aid-to-Religion Standard The Supreme Court and Freedom of Association
Summary Nondiscrimination Measures and Faith-Based Organizations The 1960s
Nondiscrimination Civil Rights Laws The Legacy of Nondiscrimination Laws
Conclusions Chapter 4: The Partisan-Political Landscape Today Faith-Based
Organizations and the Left The Left's Mindset towards Faith-Based
Organizations in the Public Realm Applications of the Left's Mindset
towards Faith-Based Organizations in the Public Realm Faith-Based
Organizations and the Right The Right's Mindset towards Faith-Based
Organizations in the Public Realm Applications of the Right's Mindset
towards Faith-Based Organizations in the Public Realm Chapter 5: Structural
Pluralism in Christian Democratic Thought Religious Freedom in the Context
of Church-State Separation Structural Pluralism and Christian Democracy
Origins in Nineteenth Century Events and Political Currents Personalism The
Pluralism of Structural Pluralism Subsidiarity in Roman Catholic Social
Thought. Sphere Sovereignty in Dutch neo-Calvinist Thought. Common Ground
between Catholics and Protestants: Contemporary Structural Pluralism
Structural Pluralism and the American Polity. Chapter 6: Faith-Based
Organizations a Pluralistic Public Square: Applications Three Basic
Perspectives A Respect for Religion and Its Role in the Public Policy World
Faith-Based Organizations Possess Religious Freedom and Autonomy Rights
Substantive Religious Neutrality as the Key to Freedom of Religion Specific
Issues: Government Funds and Religious Hiring Rights Structural Pluralism's
Answer Objections to the Structural Pluralist Position Specific Issues:
Religious Elements in Government Subsidized Services Structural Pluralism's
Answer Objections to the Structural Pluralist Position Specific Issues:
Nondiscrimination and Hiring and Membership Standards Structural
Pluralism's Answer Objections to the Structural Pluralist Position Specific
Issues: Requiring Faith-Based Organizations to Provide Services They Find
Religiously Objectionable Structural Pluralism's Answer Objections to the
Structural Pluralist Position Bibliography