Paul Horwitz

The Agnostic Age

Law, Religion, and the Constitution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution is a book for lawyers, law professors, law students, lawmakers, as well as any citizen who cares about church-state conflict and about the relationship between religion and liberal democracy. Paul Horwitz argues that the standard approach to church-state controversies has failed because it tries to avoid the pressing question of religious truth - that is, the question of what ultimately is true or untrue about religious belief. This question must be faced head-on. He proposes a new way to do so: through a turn toward an empathetic form of agnosticism. This book offers a bold new solution to age-old questions of church-state conflict and the First Amendment. It also intervenes in the debate between the New Atheists and their religious adversaries, arguing that these polarized extremes have reached an impasse while showing a way out of the stalemate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199737727
• ISBN-10: 019973772X
• Artikelnr.: 31892594

Autorenporträt

Paul Horwitz is the Gordon Rosen Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He has taught at the University of Iowa, Notre Dame Law School, and the University of San Diego, among other places, and has spoken at some of the nation's leading law schools. He is widely published in the field of constitutional law and the First Amendment, and he has written extensively on law and religion. He is also a blogger at the popular legal blog Prawfsblawg. He is a lawyer in both Canada and the United States, a former editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review, and a former law clerk for a federal appeals judge.