Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics

Name: Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics
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ISBN: 9780521011556

ISBN-10: 0521011558

ISBN-13: 9780521011556

Edition: 2002

Authors: Christopher J. Eberle

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What role should a citizen's religious convictions play in her political activities? Is she, for example, permitted to decide on the basis of her religious convictions to support laws that criminalize abortion or discourage homosexual relations? Christopher Eberle is deeply at odds with the dominant orthodoxy among political theorists about the relation of religion and politics. His argument is that a citizen may responsibly ground her political commitments on religious beliefs, even if her only reasons for her political commitments are religious in nature. His ideal of citizenship allows citizens to engage in politics without privatizing their religious commitments, and yet does not…

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List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English




Religion and Responsible Citizenship



Religion and responsible citizenship



Pluralism and religion



Justificatory liberalism



Why Restraint?



What respect requires



What respect does not require



Religion, war and division



What Is Public Justification?



Populist conceptions of public justification



Liberalism and mysticism



A theistic case for restraint