Religious commitment and secular reason / Robert Audi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Audi, Robert, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and politics.

Citizenship--Moral and ethical aspects.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Religious Commitment & Secular Reason

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Many religious people are alarmed about features of the current age - violence in the media, a pervasive hedonism, a marginalization of religion, and widespread abortion. These concerns influence politics, but just as there should be a separation between church and state, so should there be a balance between religious commitments and secular arguments calling for social reforms. Robert Audi offers a principle of secular rationale, which does not exclude religious grounds for action but which rules out restricting freedom except on grounds that any rational citizen would accept. The book describes the essential commitments of free democracy, explains how religious and secular moral considerations can be integrated to facilitate co-operation in a world of religious pluralism, and proposes ideals of civic virtue that express the mutual respect on which democracy depends. Audi offers a balanced and sophisticated treatment of the relations between religion and politics in a modern, secular society.

Contents:

pt. 1. The foundations of democracy and the separation of church and state

pt. 2. The ethics of citizenship and the balance of religious and political arguments

pt. 3. Civic virtue and political activism in a religiously pluralistic democracy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-251) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-14320-9

1-282-84854-2

9786612848544

1-139-16452-X

0-511-78851-7

0-511-78665-4

0-511-78924-6

0-511-78550-X

0-511-78779-0

OCLC:

670411022