Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse VisionsDavid W. Odell-Scott Kent State University Press, 2004 - 384 Seiten Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into four main sections: the constitutional debate regarding the establishment and free exercise of religion clause, the themes of violence and nonviolence as they relate to religion, the free exercise of religion and the rise of fundamentalism, and the challenges to the free exercise of diverse religious practices in a democratic society. Each of the main categories is subsequently broken down and examined in-depth by an expert in the field. Discussions include an explanation of the complexities of religion and state in the United States, encompassing separation, integration, and accommodation, as well as past and present religious literacy and civil liberties, and an examination of violence and nonviolence, extremism and moderation, in Islam. This compilation of essays will fascinate those with an interest in the complex relationship between religion and politics. |
Inhalt
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HOLY AND UNHOLY WAR RELIGION VIOLENCE AND NONVIOLENCE | 103 |
Past and Present | 105 |
Between Violence and Nonviolence | 115 |
New Science Global Peace and Democracy | 139 |
Or Why a Democracy Needs Fundamentalists and Why They Need a Democracy | 221 |
The Fundamentalist Factor | 243 |
RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE CHALLENGES TO THE FREE EXERCISE OF DIVERSE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN A DEMOCRATIC S... | 267 |
America an Unfinished Product? | 269 |
Report of a Towns Xenophobic Conflation of Race and Religion | 282 |
Liberalism and the Challenge of Multicultural Accommodation | 293 |
Diverse Religious Practices and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance | 309 |
Fighting Bias Bigotry and Racism in the Twentyfirst Century | 336 |
The White Mans Wounded Knee or Whose Holy War Is This Anyway? A Cautionary Tale | 156 |
Walker Percys Apocalyptic Vision | 175 |
A DILEMMA FOR DEMOCRACY THE FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION AND THE RISE OF FUNDAMENTALISM | 183 |
Fundamentalism Democracy and the Contesting of Meaning | 185 |
The Encounter between Kemalist Laicism and Islamism in 1990s Turkey | 202 |
Selected Bibliography | 348 |
Contributors | 368 |
Index | 372 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
actions American Appleby argues argument believe Branch Davidians Catholic century Chassidim choice Christian church citizens civil religion claim conception conflict constitutional context cultural democracy democratic diversity endorsement establishment clause Everson extremists faith free exercise clause fundamentalism fundamentalist gious human Ibid identity ideologies immigrants individual institutions interpretation Islam Islamists issue Jihad John Kemalist Kymlicka laicism leaders Lemon test liberal meaning ment minority modern moral movements Multiculturalism Muslims Navratri neutrality nonviolent normative Nyquist peace perspective petitioners pluralism political prayers Press principles protect public schools question Qur'an reli religious freedom religious groups religious liberty religious practices religious schools requires response role scripture secular sense separation of church September 11 Simmons-Harris social society symbols term texts tion tolerance tradition truth Turkey Turkish Turkish revolutionary U.S. Constitution U.S. Supreme Court understanding Univ University values violate violence voucher Walker Percy worldview York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 31 - ... intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...
Seite 30 - That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves, is sinful and tyrannical, that even the forcing him to support this or that teacher of his own religious persuasion, is depriving him of the comfortable liberty of giving his contributions to the particular pastor whose morals he would make his pattern, and whose powers he feels most persuasive...
Seite 96 - It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.
Seite 30 - Almighty God hath created the mind free; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy Author of our religion...
Seite 31 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Seite 143 - These good acts give us pleasure, but how happens it that they give us pleasure? Because nature hath implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses, and protests against the language of Helvetius (ib.
Seite 56 - Neither a state nor the Federal Government can set up a church. Neither can pass laws which aid one religion, aid all religions, or prefer one religion over another.
Seite 142 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Seite 56 - No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
Seite 31 - ... being called to offices of trust and emolument, unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion, is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which in common with his fellow citizens he has a natural right...