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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Whose God rules?
    sub title: is the United States a secular nation or a theolegal democracy?
  name:
    name part: Walker, Nathan C.
    name part: 1975-
  name:
    name part: Greenlee, Edwin J.
    name part: 1950-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 263 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: "The United States is not a secular democracy where laws guarantee freedom from religion, nor is it a theocracy, where a single religion prescribes all laws. This book demonstrates that the United States, whether we like it or not, is a theolegal nation--a democracy that simultaneously guarantees citizens the right to free expression of belief while preventing the establishment of a state religion. This guarantees officials the right to use theology as one of many resources in making, applying, or administering law because a theolegal democracy does not prevent citizens or officials from using their religious worldview in the public arena as seen in secular nations. However, theolegal democracy also does not permit officials to use their theology to deny civil rights to those who do not meet those creedal tests as seen in theocracies"--Provided by publisher.
  abstract: "Theolegal democracy defines a political system that allows public officials to use theology in its democratic process to shape law without instituting an official state religion. In Whose God Rules?, preeminent scholars debate the theolegal theory, which describes the gray area between a secular legal system, where theology is dismissed as irrational and a threat to the separation of religion and state, and a theocracy, where a single religion determines all law. The United States is neither a secular nation nor a theocracy, leading scholars to ask whether the United States is a theolegal democracy. If so, whose God rules?"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword -- Tony Blair * Introduction to the Theolegal Theory -- Nathan C. Walker * Part I: A Theolegal Nation * Editorial Preface to Unit I * Theolegal Discourse -- Kent Greenawalt * Religious Fairness -- Martha Nussbaum * Religious Secularism -- Paula M. Cooey * Part II: Theolegal Officials * Editorial Preface to Unit II * The Religious Right -- Alan Dershowitz * Religious Judges -- Edwin J. Greenlee * Religious Presidents -- Mark J. Rozell * Presidential Abortion Rhetoric -- Ted G. Jelen and Brendan Morris * Part III: Theolegal Democracy * Editorial Preface to Unit III * Stem Cell Research -- Robert P. George * Evolution v. Creation -- Michael Zimmerman * Marriage Equality -- Stacey Sobel and Edwin J. Greenlee * Theolegal Marriage -- Christine Carlson * Part IV: Theodiplomacy * Editorial Preface to Unit IV * Theotorture of Guantánamo -- David L. McColgin * Theolegal Nuclear Weapons Policy -- Douglas B. Shaw * Theology of Human Rights -- William F. Schultz * Religious Freedom -- Joseph K. Grieboski * Conclusion -- Edwin J. Greenlee and Nathan C. Walker.
  note: edited by Nathan C. Walker and Edwin J. Greenlee ; foreword by Tony Blair.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Religion and politics
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Religion and state
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General
  classification: BL2525 .W475 2011
  classification: 322/.10973
  classification: POL042000 REL084000 POL040000
  identifier: 9780230117839 (hardback)
  identifier: 023011783X (hardback)
  identifier: 2011021591
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110518
    record change date: 20151202145849.0
    record identifier: in00002695147