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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... leadership—in either party. As a group, they were smarter. Their understanding of what it meant to promote democ- racy in a plural society was better reasoned. Their approach to the larger questions may be even more applicable to our ...
... leaders, including officials at the NAACP whose lawyers had argued the Brown case, and who did not support vouchers. Clint Bolick, who has represented black parents and children in more voucher cases than any other litigator in the ...
... leaders. Many individuals who describe themselves as “multiculturists,” who sincerely support the causes of racial minorities, women, gays, immi- grants, and other groups that have been the victims of discrimination, exhibit a genuine ...
... leaders share of people who take religion seri- ously—that they are irrational and uninformed, a stupid lot who must be treated with suspicion. The stammering Bush, who got the nation involved in a seemingly irresolvable global conflict ...
... leaders and commentators have exercised restraint in separating the suicide bombers from the teachings of Islam. Harris argues that the murderers were representative of mainstream Islamic beliefs recorded in the Koran. For Harris, the ...
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The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti No preview available - 2007 |