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  title info:
    title: Why politics needs religion
    sub title: the place of religious arguments in the public square
  name:
    name part: Sweetman, Brendan.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 256 pages ; 23 cm.
  table of contents: Introduction: a new perspective on religion and politics -- Understanding worldviews -- Worldviews : the center and the outer edges -- Two major worldviews in contemporary America -- The formal structure of a worldview -- Worldviews and faith -- The rationality of worldviews -- Worldviews and religion -- Foundational and nonfoundational beliefs -- Lower-order and higher-order beliefs -- Promoting our worldview : belief, action and ritual -- The worldview of secularism -- Secularism today -- Secularism, politics and seculocracy -- The influence of secularism on religion -- Secularism as a worldview -- Secularism as a religion -- Religious beliefs and reason -- What does it mean to describe a belief as "religious"? -- Reason as a source of religious beliefs -- The rationality of religious belief -- Introducing reasonable religious beliefs into politics -- How should we handle reasonable disagreements? -- Keeping religion out of politics I -- Religious beliefs should be excluded because they are "religious" -- Traditional religious beliefs cannot be based on reason and evidence -- "Secular reason" does not imply secularism -- Secularism can better achieve overall agreement among worldviews -- Keeping religion out of politics II -- Most religious beliefs are higher-order beliefs, and so should be kept private -- Religion is dangerous, secularism is benign -- Religious beliefs should not be forced by law on those who do not think they are true -- Religious views should be excluded according to the U.S. constitution -- Rawls, religion and democracy -- Arguing from within our worldview -- John Rawls's political liberalism -- Problems with Rawls's theory -- Religion and democracy -- The principle of religious freedom -- Religion in politics -- Introducing lower-order, rational beliefs into public arguments -- A seculocracy for a secularist people? -- Some practical applications -- The relationship between church and state -- A fictional example : form and content -- Looking…
  note: Brendan Sweetman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-252) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Religion and politics
  classification: BL65.P7 S94 2006
  classification: 201/.72
  identifier: 0830828427 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2006013030
  identifier: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0612/2006013030.html
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    record creation date: 060418
    record change date: 20151104071236.0
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