A Culture of Engagement : Law, Religion, and Morality / Cathleen Kaveny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaveny, Cathleen, author.

Series:

Moral traditions series.

The moral traditions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture conflict--United States.

Culture conflict.

Freedom of religion--United States.

Freedom of religion.

Law--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.

Law.

Christian ethics--United States.

Christian ethics.

Catholic Church--United States--Doctrines.

Catholic Church.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Religious traditions in the United States have been characterized by an ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture, typically reflected by mainline Protestant churches, and defiant rejection of cultural incursions, as witnessed by more sectarian movements such as Mormonism and Hassidism. But legal theorist and theologian Cathleen Kaveny contends that religious traditions do not need to swim in either the Current of Openness or the Current of Identity. There is a third possibility, which she calls the Current of Engagement, which accommodates and respects tradition but which recognizes the need to interact with culture to remain relevant and to offer a prophetic critique of social and political and legal and economic practice. In fifty-six brief articles Kaveny illustrates the implications of the Current of Engagement in American public life. The articles are organized into five chapters or sections: Law as Teacher; Religious Liberty and its Limits; Conversations about Culture; Conversations about Belief; and Cases and Controversies. Kaveny provides astonishing insights into a range of hot-button issues: abortion, assisted suicide, government-sponsored torture, contraception, the Ashley Treatment, capital punishment, and the role of religious faith in a pluralistic society.

Contents:

Law as a teacher

Rules are not enough : why judges need empathy

Teacher or remedy : what is the law for?

Letter versus spirit : why the constitution needs interpreting

Remember the Mormons : thinking about the nature of marriage

Regulating abortion : what did the Roberts court do?

Caught in the gap : what hostility to health-care reform has wrought

Peaceful and private : Montana's Supreme Court on assisted suicide

More than a refuge : why immigration officials should steer clear of churches

Justice or vengeance : is the death penalty cruel and unusual?

Undue process : the evisceration of habeas corpus

Bad evidence : not only is torture immoral, it doesn't work

Perverted logic : behind the Bush administration's "torture memo"

Regret is not enough : why the president should read Paul Ramsey

Religious liberty and its limits

The right to refuse : how broad should conscience protections be?

The bishops and religious liberty : are Catholics becoming a sect?

Is the government "defining religion"? : the bishops' case against the mandate

Defining exemptions does not equal defining religion : a category mistake

An evolving accommodation : religious minorities and the common good

Employment division v. Smith : the eye of the storm

Smith, RFRA and the bishops' claims : neutral laws of general applicability?

The key Supreme Court case for the mandate : U.S. v. Lee

Reading the tea leaves : why the Supreme Court is unlikely to block the contraception mandate

A minefield : the troubling implications of the Hobby Lobby decision

Conversations about culture

Watch your mouth : sage advice from St. James

Model atheist : Jeffrey Stout and the culture wars

Bishops and politics : lessons from Australia

Moving beyond the culture wars : why a bioethics council needs diversity

A flawed analogy : prochoice politicians and the third reich

Sick minds : what can we do to prevent another Tucson?

Crime or tragedy? : murder and suicide at Villanova

Dignity and the end of life : how not to talk about assisted suicide

The right questions : Catholic colleges and pop culture

Either/or? : Catholicism is more complex

Conversations about belief

Family feuds : what's keeping Catholics apart

The martyrdom of John Roberts : Catholic squabbling, then and now

No academic question : should the CTSA seek "conservative" views?

The "new" feminism : John Paul II and the 1912 Catholic encyclopedia

Catholic kosher : is the ban on contraception just an identity marker?

The big chill : humanae vitae dissenters need to find a voice

How about not firing her? : moral norms and Catholic school teachers

Truth or consequences : in Ireland, straying far from the mental reservation

Unspeakable sins : why we need to talk about them

A darkening : why a church scandal does more harm than the new atheism

The long goodbye : why some devout Catholics are leaving the church

A postcard from the lost generation

Cases and controversies

The consistent ethic : an ethic of "life," not "purity"

Contraception, again : where can we find compromise?

When does life begin? : two prolife philosophers disagree

Why prolife? : it's about people, not abstractions

The ACLU takes on the bishops : tragedy leads to a misguided lawsuit

Coopted by evil? : abortion and amnesty international

Boycotts in a pluralistic society : how and where do we draw moral lines?

Forever young : the trouble with the "Ashley treatment"

Risk and responsibility : why insurance is the wrong way to think about health

Care

A horrific crime : but is execution the answer?

Could the church have gotten it wrong? : let's look at the facts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781626163041

1626163049

OCLC:

945198749