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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... minority populations. Even in the best of circumstances, religion, like any freedom, is not absolute. It must be reconciled with other individual rights, and com- peting definitions of religious liberty itself. As a result, it is ...
... minority. These stories are positioned at the front end of the book to remind readers that there are more than abstract principles at stake in the discussion about religion. These are human stories in which there are winners and losers ...
... minorities can be compromised by the self-righteous prejudices of political majorities. I hope this chapter will alert more open-minded readers to the possibility that perhaps we have our own biases to overcome. The other option is for ...
... minority children, I assumed that if I explained school choice in the context of an egalitarian agenda, I could at least get them to pay attention, to be open-minded. I tied the demand for choice to the moral mandate that Chief Justice ...
... minorities, women, gays, immi- grants, and other groups that have been the victims of discrimination, exhibit a genuine hostility towards the devoutly religious. They are not ashamed to say it. Their sentiment is proudly worn as a badge ...
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The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti No preview available - 2007 |