Getting over equality : a critical diagnosis of religious freedom in America / Steven D. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Steven D. (Steven Douglas), 1952-

Series:

Critical America.

Critical America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious tolerance--United States.

Religious tolerance.

Protestantism--United States.

Protestantism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. But there is also a sense that the prevailing discourse is exhausted, that no one seems to know how to think about religious freedom in a way that moves beyond our stale, counterproductive thinking on this issue. In Getting over Equality , Steven D. Smith, one of the most important voices now writing about religious liberty, provocatively contends that we must get over our presumption mistak

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond Failure; I How Firm a Foundation?; l Blooming Confusion: Religious Equality in the"Age of Madison"; 2 Religion, Democracy, and Autonomy: A Political Parable; 3 Is a Theory of Religious Freedom Possible?; II What Shall We Do? (or How the Supreme CourtCan Stop Making Things Worse); 4 Unprincipled Religious Freedom; 5 The Unhappy Demise of the Doctrine of Tolerance; 6 Demons in the Discourse; III Can Faith Tolerate?; 7 The (Compelling?) Case for Religious Intolerance; 8 Theism and Tolerance; Notes; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814739945

0814739946

9780814786949

0814786944

OCLC:

779828377