Michael J. Perry

Under God?

Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Political reliance on religious faith does not violate the morality of liberal democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780521825399
• ISBN-10: 0521825393
• Artikelnr.: 29339360

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Mainly for the Agnostics and the Exclusionists: 1. What does the
Establishment Clause forbid? Reflections on the constitutionality of school
vouchers; 2. Why political reliance on religiously grounded morality does
not violate the establishment clause; 3. Why political reliance on
religiously grounded morality is not illegitimate in a liberal democracy;
Part II. Mainly for the Agnostics and the Inclusionists, Especially
Inclusionists Who are Religious Believers: 4. Christians, the Bible, and
same-sex unions: an argument for political self-restraint; 5. Catholics,
the Magisterium, and same-sex unions: an argument for independent judgment.
6. Religion, politics, and abortion.