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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... social issue of the day; and even the best informed among us could not have comprehended the meaning of stem- cell research. Yet the larger questions behind these issues are timeless: How can people of different persuasions live in ...
... social values, and indeed reflect the values of the larger society. Chapter 4 explains that schools also reflect the biases of the larger society. It is difficult to appreciate this in the society in which we live. We are just too close ...
... social justice.1 Education has always been an essential part of the American dream, so much so that every state constitution defines it as both an individual right and a parental obligation. As long as middle-class parents have the ...
... social conserva- tive from Popular Bluff, Missouri, who is quoted as telling a rally of twenty thousand Bush supporters gathered at a Labor Day rally, “I love my president. I love my country. And most important of all, I love Jesus ...
... social is the source of the problem that I identify. It is the full measure of religious freedom, or the lack of it. This is not to say that Americans are contemptuous towards religion. The United States is among the most religious ...
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The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square Joseph P. Viteritti No preview available - 2007 |