Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State and Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate

Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate

Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State

Name: Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State
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Author: Robert Audi (, University Of Notre Dame, Brooklyn, Ny)
ISBN: 9780199796083

by Robert Audi (, University Of Notre Dame, Brooklyn, Ny)

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192 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press
14.5 x 21.1 x 2.3 cm

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Democratic states must protect the liberty of citizens and must accommodate both religious liberty and cultural diversity. This democratic imperative is one reason for the increasing secularity of most modern democracies. Religious citizens, however, commonly see a secular state as unfriendly toward religion. This book articulates principles that enable secular governments to protect liberty in a way that judiciously separates church and state and fully respects religious citizens. After presenting a brief account of the relation between religion and ethics, the book shows how ethics can be independent of religion-evidentially autonomous in a way that makes moral knowledge possible for secular citizens-without denying religious sources a moral authority of their own. With this account in view, it portrays a church-state separation that requires governments not only to avoid religious establishment but also to maintain religious neutrality. The book shows how religious neutrality is related to such issues as teaching evolutionary biology in public schools, the legitimacy of vouchers to fund private schooling, and governmental support of