Of the many challenges facing liberal democracy, none is as
powerful and pervasive today as those posed by religion. These are
the challenges taken up in "Obligations of Citizenship and Demands
of Faith," an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary
public life.
The essays in this volume suggest that two important shifts have
altered the balance between the competing obligations of
citizenship and faith: the growth of religious pluralism and the
escalating calls of religious groups for some measure of autonomy
or recognition from democratic majorities. The authors--political
theorists, philosophers, legal scholars, and social
scientists--collectively argue that more room should be made for
religion in today's democratic societies. Though they advocate
different ways of carving out and justifying the proper bounds of
"church and state" in pluralist democracies, they all write from
within democratic theory and share the aim of democratic
accommodation of religion. Alert to national differences in
political circumstances and the particularities of constitutional
and legal systems, these contributors consider the question of
religious accommodation from the standpoint of institutional
practices and law as well as that of normative theory.
Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and comparative focus,
this volume makes a timely and much-needed intervention in current
debates about religion and politics. The contributors are Nancy L.
Rosenblum, Alan Wolfe, Ronald Thiemann, Michael McConnell, Graham
Walker, Amy Gutmann, Kent Greenawalt, Aviam Soifer, Harry Hirsch,
Gary Jacobsohn, Yael Tamir, Martha Nussbaum, and Carol
Weisbrod.
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