Religion in politics : constitutional and moral perspectives /
In this book, Michael Perry addresses several fundamental questions about the proper role of religion in the politics of a liberal democracy, which is a central, recurring issue in the politics of the United States. The controversy about religion in politics comprises both constitutional and moral q...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999, 1997.
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Table of Contents:
- The constitutional law of religious freedom. Getting from there to here
- Free exercise
- Nonestablishment
- Why nonestablishment?
- Nonestablishment conflicts
- Free exercise, nonestablishment, and the problem of "accommodation"
- Religion in politics : constitutional perspectives
- Religious arguments in public political debate. Religious arguments in public political debate-- and in public culture generally
- Greenawalt on religious arguments in public political debate
- Rawls's "ideal of public reason"
- Religious arguments as a basis of political choice. Religious arguments as a basis of political choice
- Religious arguments about human worth
- Religious arguments about human well-being
- A case in point : religious arguments about the morality of homosexual sexual conduct
- Finnis's secular argument about the morality of homosexual sexual conduct
- A concluding comment (mainly for theologically "conservative" Christians).
