Religious Left and Church-State Relations (eBook)

Steven H. Shiffrin (Autor)

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2012
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3383-2 (ISBN)

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Steven H. Shiffrin is the Charles Frank Reavis Sr. Professor of Law at Cornell University. He is the author of Dissent, Injustice, and the Meanings of America and The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romance (both Princeton).

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In The Religious Left and Church-State Relations, noted constitutional law scholar Steven Shiffrin argues that the religious left, not the secular left, is best equipped to lead the battle against the religious right on questions of church and state in America today. Explaining that the chosen rhetoric of secular liberals is poorly equipped to argue against religious conservatives, Shiffrin shows that all progressives, religious and secular, must appeal to broader values promoting religious liberty. He demonstrates that the separation of church and state serves to protect religions from political manipulation while tight connections between church and state compromise the integrity of religious institutions. Shiffrin discusses the pluralistic foundations of the religion clauses in the First Amendment and asserts that the clauses cannot be confined to the protection of liberty, equality, or equal liberty. He explores the constitutional framework of religious liberalism, applying it to controversial examples, including the Pledge of Allegiance, the government's use of religious symbols, the teaching of evolution in public schools, and school vouchers. Shiffrin examines how the approaches of secular liberalism toward church-state relations have been misguided philosophically and politically, and he illustrates why theological arguments hold an important democratic position--not in courtrooms or halls of government, but in the public dialogue. The book contends that the great issue of American religious politics is not whether religions should be supported at all, but how religions can best be strengthened and preserved.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.8.2012
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Atheism • Buddhism • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Catholic school • Christian • Christianity • Christian Right • Citizenship • civic virtue • Civil Society • Clergy • common school • Communitarianism • Compulsory Education • conscientious objector • Consideration • Constitutionality • constitutional law • Criticism • Curriculum • Democracy • Democratic education • Dissenter • Doctrine • Employment Division v. Smith • Endorsement test • Equal Protection Clause • Establishment Clause • Everson v. Board of Education • Freedom of association • freedom of religion • freedom of speech • Free Exercise Clause • Funding • Homeschooling • hostility • Ideology • Integrated education • Irreligion • Jews • John Rawls • John Stuart Mill • Joseph Raz • Jurisdiction • Legislation • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Martha Nussbaum • of education • On Liberty • original intent • overlapping consensus • Peyote • Pierce v. Society of Sisters • Political Liberalism • Political Philosophy • Politician • Politics • Prejudice • Private School • Problem of evil • Protestantism • Public Policy • public reason • Public school (United Kingdom) • Racial segregation • Racism • Religion • Religion in Europe • Religiosity • Religious discrimination • Religious education • Religious liberalism • Religious Organization • Religious pluralism • Religious symbol • Religious violence • Richard Rorty • Ronald Dworkin • school choice • school district • School voucher • Seana Shiffrin • Second Vatican Council • secular humanism • Secularism • Secularization • Secular liberalism • separation of church and state • Social Justice • Statute • Subsidy • Supreme being • The New Anti-Catholicism • Theology • The Other Hand • Toleration • Voucher • Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3383-3 / 1400833833
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3383-2 / 9781400833832