Democratic Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Religion write by Gregory A. Wills. This book was released on 2003-03-13. Democratic Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.
Democratic Faith
Democratic Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Faith write by Patrick Deneen. This book was released on 2009-01-10. Democratic Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent supporters there is an oft-expressed belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to reconcile the sometimes disappointing reality of human self-interest with the democratic ideal of selfless commitment. This "transformative impulse" is frequently couched in religious language, such as the need for political "redemption." This is all the more striking given the frequent accompanying condemnation of traditional religious belief that informs the "democratic faith.? At the same time, because so often this democratic ideal fails to materialize, democratic faith is often subject to a particularly intense form of disappointment. A mutually reinforcing cycle of faith and disillusionment is frequently exhibited by those who profess a democratic faith--in effect imperiling democratic commitments due to the cynicism of its most fervent erstwhile supporters. Deneen argues that democracy is ill-served by such faith. Instead, he proposes a form of "democratic realism" that recognizes democracy not as a regime with aspirations to perfection, but that justifies democracy as the regime most appropriate for imperfect humans. If democratic faith aspires to transformation, democratic realism insists on the central importance of humility, hope, and charity.
Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy
Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy write by Jean L. Cohen. This book was released on 2015-12-22. Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.
Teaching about Religions
Teaching about Religions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Teaching about Religions write by Emile Lester. This book was released on 2011-04-27. Teaching about Religions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. DIVPublic schools can play a role in promoting respect for religious differences/div
Religion and Brazilian Democracy
Religion and Brazilian Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Brazilian Democracy write by Amy Erica Smith. This book was released on 2019-03-28. Religion and Brazilian Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Evangelical and Catholic groups are transforming Brazilian politics. This book asks why, and what the consequences are for democracy.
