Religious Commitment And Secular Reason and Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State

Democratic Authority and the Separation of Church and State

Religious Commitment And Secular Reason

Name: Religious Commitment And Secular Reason
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Author: Lincoln) Robert Audi (University of Nebraska
ISBN: 9780521775700

by Lincoln) Robert Audi (University of Nebraska

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272 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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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.