This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical
foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that
converged to form the basis of liberal democracy's approach to the
place and role of religion in society and politics. Identified by
the author as a "religious axis," the period of convergence
promoted rational and empirical investigation, enabled the
development of diverse religious beliefs, and affirmed religious
liberty and expressions amidst pluralist politics. The author shows
that the religious axis' three philosophical foundations-epistemic,
axiological, and political-undergird the political architecture of
American liberal democracy that designed a containment structure to
protect a vast array of religious expressions and encourage their
presence in the public square. Moreover, the structure embodied a
democratic ethos that drives religious and political pluralism-but
within limits. The author argues that this containment structure
has paradoxically ignited frenzied fires of faith that politically
threaten the structure's own limits.
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