Why politics needs religion : the place of religious arguments in the public square /
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Downers Grove, Ill. :
IVP Academic,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
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 at the world upside down : on revising our terminology
- Pluralism, relativism and religious debates : American style
- American pluralism
- School prayer
- Display of traditional religious symbols in public places
- Religion and moral issues : the euthanasia debate in Oregon
- Moral relativism in American culture
- The problems with relativism
- The rhetoric of relativism
- Tolerance : traditional and contemporary meanings.