Religion and Democratic Citizenship: Inquiry and Conviction in the American Public SquareLexington Books, 2008 - 161 páginas Polls indicate that many, if not most, Americans think that their religion should play some sort of role in the political arena. But are they misguided? When citizens allow their religious convictions to filter into the political sphere, are they acting as bad citizens? In a pluralistic democracy such as ours, what is the proper relationship between religion and politics? Religion and Democratic Citizenship critically examines a variety of proposals to address the question of whether and how religion should influence the activities of the American public square, from public deliberation to voting. These proposals commonly fall into two broad types of familiar strategies. On the one hand, mainstream liberal political theorists like John Rawls and others seek to keep religion and politics largely separate. On the other hand, pragmatists like William James, John Dewey, and Cornel West seek to reinterpret the meaning of religion itself so that it can be rendered compatible with democracy. Religion and Democratic Citizenship outlines the shortcomings of both of these strategies and aims to reframe the nature of the debate concerning the proper relationship between religion and politics by offering a useful framework for further discussion. Drawing influence from both Socrates and C. S. Peirce, the author proposes a model of the deliberative democracy designed to accommodate as many democratically predisposed citizens as possible, whether they are religious or not. In so doing, this book ultimately offers a strategy to accommodate religious participation in the activities of the democratic public square -- a strategy that enables citizens to employ religious reasoning and meet the epistemic obligations of good deliberative democratic citizenship. Readers of this book will include researchers interested in Philosophy, Political Science, Law, Sociology, and Theology, as well as teachers, students, politicians, clergy, and concerned citizens. |
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Tension in Our American Public Philosophy | 1 |
William James and That OldTime Religion The Jamesian Roots of the Reconstructivist Strategy | 15 |
Questionable NeoPragmatic Proposals Concerning Religions Role in the Public Square | 39 |
Silence and Neutrality Liberalisms Public Reason | 63 |
Liberalisms Hidden Garments A Multidimensional Response to the Naked Public Square | 85 |
Public Deliberation After Rawls Stouts Contribution and Instructive Shortcoming | 107 |
Speculations on an Open SocraticPeircean Public Square | 123 |
Conclusion | 149 |
Bibliography | 151 |
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