The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public SquareThe presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to respect religion itself--still less its free exercise in any situation that is not absolutely private. In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. In this readable, original, and provocative book, Viteritti argues that Americans must guard against debasing politics with either antireligious bigotry or religious zealotry. Drawing on politics, history, and law, he defines a new approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike. |
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... Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Viteritti, Joseph P., 1946– The last freedom : religion from the public school to the public square / Joseph P. Viteritti. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-691 ...
... Congress, the House of Representatives, the Department of Justice, the National Archives, and the Ronald Reagan Federal Office Building, as well as the federal district and appeals courts. One can only imagine how many federal and state ...
... Congress in the midterm elections. Once again, the election year squabble reinforced the fact that religion and morality remain essential features of American politics. In 2006, New York's highest court upheld the “opposite sex” provi ...
... Congress approved the First Amendment to the Constitution , a delegation of its members paid a visit to Mr. Washington and urged him to designate “ a day of public thanksgiving and prayer ” acknowledging the “ many and signal favors of ...
... Congress convinced themselves that human reason would eventually move the civil rights campaign forward, permitting them to take a gradualist position; King and other black preachers embraced the pro- phetic message of the Bible to ...
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The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti No preview available - 2007 |