Representing God (eBook)

Christian Legal Activism in Contemporary England

Méadhbh McIvor (Autor)

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2020
200 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21161-9 (ISBN)

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How evangelical activism in England contributes to the secularizing forces it seeks to challengeOver the past two decades, a growing number of Christians in England have gone to court to enforce their right to religious liberty. Funded by conservative lobby groups and influenced by the legal strategies of their American peers, these claimants-registrars who conscientiously object to performing the marriages of same-sex couples, say, or employees asking for exceptions to uniform policies that forbid visible crucifixes-highlight the uneasy truce between law and religion in a country that maintains an established Church but is wary of public displays of religious conviction.Representing God charts the changing place of public Christianity in England through the rise of Christian political activism and litigation. Based on two years of fieldwork split between a conservative Christian lobby group and a conservative evangelical church, Meadhbh McIvor explores the ideas and contested reception of this ostensibly American-inspired legal rhetoric. She argues that legal challenges aimed at protecting "e;Christian values"e; ultimately jeopardize those values, as moralities woven into the fabric of English national life are filtered from their quotidian context and rebranded as the niche interests of a cultural minority. By framing certain moral practices as specifically Christian, these activists present their religious convictions as something increasingly set apart from broader English culture, thereby hastening the secularization they seek to counter.Representing God offers a unique look at how Christian politico-legal activism in England simultaneously responds to and constitutes the religious life of a nation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: activism • activist-minded Christians • Aliens and Strangers? • Ambiguity • Ambivalence • Amendment • american christianity • American Law • Andrea Hatcher • Anecdote • Anglican Communion • Anglo-Catholicism • Anna Strhan • Anna Su • antidiscrimination • Apathy • Article 9 ECHR • attempt • Baptists • Barrister • Beyond Religious Freedom • Bible • Biblically inflected speech • Bishop • Buddhism • Career • Carol Greenhouse • Catholic Church • Catholicism • Christ Church • Christendom • Christian • christian activism • Christian Concern • Christianity • Christian Legal Centre • Christian Right • Christian theology • Christian Values • Church of England • Church Service • Church-State Relations • Conscience • conscientious objector • conservative Christian communities • Conservative Christians • conservative Protestants • Consideration • culture war • curate • Discrimination • Doctrine • ECHR • Elizabeth Shakman Hurd • English Christianity • English law • European Christians • European Convention on Human Rights • evangelicalism • Evangelism • Exclusion • Ex-gay movement • Explanation • Exporting Freedom • freedom of religion • freedom of speech • General Synod • God • God's Agents • Homosexuality • hostile state • hostile world thesis • hostility • Human Rights Act 1998 • Human Rights Act of 1998 • Human Rights Law • human rights witnessing • Ideology • Individualism • Informant • Institution • Jerry Falwell • Judaism • Judeo-Christian • Law and Religion • lawyer • legal activists • legal religion • Legislation • lived religion • Lobby Groups • mary whitehouse • Matthew Engelke • Moral Ambition • Morality • Moral Majority • narrative • Natural and legal rights • Old Testament • Omri Elisha • Otso • passive accommodation • Pastor • Pentecostalism • Persecution • Philosopher • Politician • Politics • Prayer • Prayer meeting • Praying for Justice • Precedent • prescriptive regulation • Protestantism • public Christianity • Public engagement • Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law • Public sphere • Racism • Reactionary • Religion • Religiosity • Religious Difference in a Secular Age • Religious discrimination • Religious Freedom • religious jewelry • Religious Liberty • Religious Organizations • religious organizing • Religious pluralism • religious text • Repentance • rhetoric • Rite • Ronald Niezen • Saba Mahmood • Same-Sex Marriage • Secularism • Secularization • secular law • Secular state • Selfishness • Sermon • Serving the World • Sexism • Sexual orientation • skepticism • Slavery • Social Movements • state control • State Religion • Stephen Chapman • Straight to Jesus • Susan Friend Harding • synod • Tanya Erzen • The Book of Jerry Falwell • The Impossibility of Religious Freedom • The Law and the Prophets • Theology • theology and law • The Other Hand • The Religious and Political Identities of British Evangelicals • truth claim • Vincent Crapanzano • William Wilberforce • Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21161-2 / 0691211612
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21161-9 / 9780691211619