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Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of
health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all
these efforts, however, have been accompanied by intense debate and
numerous legal challenges. The right of faith-based organizations
to hire based on religion, the presence of religious symbols and
icons in rooms where government-subsidized services are provided,
and the enforcement of gay civil rights to which some faith-based
organizations object all continue to be subjects of intense debate
and numerous court cases. In Pluralism and Freedom, Stephen V.
Monsma explores the question of how much autonomy should
faith-based organizations retain when they enter the public realm?
He contends that pluralism and freedom demand their religious
freedom be respected, but that freedom of all religious traditions
and of the general public and secular groups be equally respected,
ideals that neither the left nor the right live up to. In response,
Monsma argues that democratic pluralism requires a genuine,
authenticOCobut also a limitedOCoautonomy for faith-based
organizations providing public services, and offers practical,
concrete public policy applications of this framework in practice.
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal
development in America in the past quarter century. And while their
voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their
participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They
continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual Bible thumpers
whose views are devoid of reason, logic, or empirical evidence.
They're seen as lemmings, following the cues of Dobson and
Robertson and marching in lock step with the Republican party on
the "culture wars" issues of abortion, gay rights, and guns. Is The
Good Book Good Enough? remedies the neglect of this highly
influential group, which makes up as much as a third of the
American public. It offers a carefully nuanced and comprehensive
portrait of evangelical attitudes on a wide range of policies and
their theological underpinnings. Each essay applies an evangelical
lens to a contemporary issue - environmentalism, immigration,
family and same-sex marriage, race relations, global human rights,
foreign policy and national security, social welfare and poverty,
and economic policy. The result thoroughly enriches our
understanding of evangelicalism as a prism through which many view
a wide range of policy debates.
In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes
France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic
comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the
United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and
Australia. As successful and stable political democracies, these
countries share a commitment to protecting the religious rights of
their citizens. The book demonstrates, however, that each has taken
substantially different approaches to resolving basic church-state
questions. The authors examine both the historical roots of those
differences and more recent conflicts over Islam and other
religious minorities, explain how contemporary church-state issues
are addressed, and provide a framework for assessing the success of
each of the six states in protecting the religious rights of its
citizens using a framework based on the ideal of governmental
neutrality and evenhandedness toward people of all faiths and of
none. Responding to the general confusion about the relationship
between church and state in the West, this book offers a
much-needed comparative analysis of a topic that is increasingly a
source of political conflict. The authors argue that the US
conception of church-state separation, with its emphasis on
avoiding government establishment of religion, is unique among
political democracies and discriminates against religious groups by
denying religious organizations access to government services
provided to other organizations. The authors persuasively conclude
that the United States can learn a great deal from other Western
nations in promoting religious neutrality and the free exercise of
religion.
Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of
health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all
these efforts, however, have been accompanied by intense debate and
numerous legal challenges. The right of faith-based organizations
to hire based on religion, the presence of religious symbols and
icons in rooms where government-subsidized services are provided,
and the enforcement of gay civil rights to which some faith-based
organizations object all continue to be subjects of intense debate
and numerous court cases. In Pluralism and Freedom, Stephen Monsma
explores the question of how much autonomy should faith-based
organizations retain when they enter the public realm? He contends
that pluralism and freedom demand their religious freedom be
respected, but that freedom of all religious traditions and of the
general public and secular groups be equally respected, ideals that
neither the left nor the right live up to. In response, Monsma
argues that democratic pluralism requires a genuine, authentic-but
also a limited-autonomy for faith-based organizations providing
public services, and offers practical, concrete public policy
applications of this framework in practice.
Despite Americans' traditional emphasis on the separation of church
and state, both in theory and practice, few are aware of the
hundreds of millions of public dollars that flow annually to
religiously based nonprofit organizations. Based on a massive
nation-wide survey of nearly 800 such groups, Stephen V. Monsma's
important study explores the implications of this financial
partnership.
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Faith and Public Policy (Paperback)
James R. Wilburn; Contributions by Eloise Anderson, John J. Diiulio Jr, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Patrick Fagan, …
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Faith and Public Policy turns the spotlight on the role of faith in
the public square and the spiritual consequences of public
policymaking. The work brings together fourteen of America's most
respected writers on the intersection of faith and public policy to
discuss the changing roles of government, church, education, and
the family. Chapters investigate such issues as inner city
programs, the secularization of faith-based programs, the impact of
tax policy on the family, and the status of school vouchers.
Contributions by Steve Forbes and William E. Simon illustrate the
deep personal faith that informs and fuels the public leadership of
America's leading thinkers and political figures. Readers will find
Faith and Public Policy a timely and vigorous conversation on the
commingling of government and religion in America, a country eager
to return to the Founding Generation's idea of a nation in covenant
with God.
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Faith and Public Policy (Hardcover)
James R. Wilburn; Contributions by Eloise Anderson, John J. Diiulio Jr, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Patrick Fagan, …
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Discovery Miles 22 190
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Faith and Public Policy turns the spotlight on the role of faith in
the public square and the spiritual consequences of public
policymaking. The work brings together fourteen of America's most
respected writers on the intersection of faith and public policy to
discuss the changing roles of government, church, education, and
the family. Chapters investigate such issues as inner city
programs, the secularization of faith-based programs, the impact of
tax policy on the family, and the status of school vouchers.
Contributions by Steve Forbes and William E. Simon illustrate the
deep personal faith that informs and fuels the public leadership of
America's leading thinkers and political figures. Readers will find
Faith and Public Policy a timely and vigorous conversation on the
commingling of government and religion in America, a country eager
to return to the Founding Generation's idea of a nation in covenant
with God.
Realists have long argued that the international system must be
based on hard calculations of power and interest. But in recent
years, religion's role on the international scene has grown. The
Influence of Faith examines religion as a growing factor in world
politics and U.S. foreign policy. Particular attention is placed on
the American reaction to the persecution of Christians and Jews
overseas, as well as the role of faith-based groups such as
missionary and relief organizations in the formulation and
implementation of U.S. policy. The Influence of Faith considers
these timely issues from diverse points of view, offering broad
historical analysis as well as concrete examples taken from current
affairs.
Everson Revisited explores the consequences and future implications
of Everson v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case
that permitted the use of tax revenue to transport students to
parochial schools while simultaneously calling for an impenetrable
'wall of separation' between religion and public schools.
In a thoroughly revised and expanded edition that now includes
France, this essential text offers a rigorous, systematic
comparison of church-state relations in six Western nations: the
United States, France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, and
Australia. As successful and stable political democracies, these
countries share a commitment to protecting the religious rights of
their citizens. The book demonstrates, however, that each has taken
substantially different approaches to resolving basic church-state
questions. The authors examine both the historical roots of those
differences and more recent conflicts over Islam and other
religious minorities, explain how contemporary church-state issues
are addressed, and provide a framework for assessing the success of
each of the six states in protecting the religious rights of its
citizens using a framework based on the ideal of governmental
neutrality and evenhandedness toward people of all faiths and of
none. Responding to the general confusion about the relationship
between church and state in the West, this book offers a
much-needed comparative analysis of a topic that is increasingly a
source of political conflict. The authors argue that the US
conception of church-state separation, with its emphasis on
avoiding government establishment of religion, is unique among
political democracies and discriminates against religious groups by
denying religious organizations access to government services
provided to other organizations. The authors persuasively conclude
that the United States can learn a great deal from other Western
nations in promoting religious neutrality and the free exercise of
religion.
What do Hobby Lobby, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Wheaton
College, World Vision, the Little Sisters of the Poor, and the
University of Notre Dame have in common? All are faith-based
organizations that have faced pressure to act in ways contrary to
their religious beliefs. In this book, two policy experts show how
faith-based groups--those active in the educational, healthcare,
international aid and development, and social service fields--can
defend their ability to follow their religiously based beliefs
without having to jettison the very faith and faith-based practices
that led them to provide services to those in need. They present a
pluralist vision for religious freedom for faith-based
organizations of all religious traditions. The book includes case
studies that document the challenges faith-based organizations face
to freely follow the practices of their religious traditions and
analyzes these threats as originating in a common, yet erroneous,
set of assumptions and attitudes prevalent in American society. The
book also includes responses by diverse voices--an Orthodox Jew, a
Roman Catholic, two evangelicals, two Islamic leaders, and an
unbeliever who is a religious-freedom advocate--underscoring the
importance of religious freedom for faith-based organizations.
The political emergence of evangelical Christians has been a signal
development in America in the past quarter century. And while their
voting tendencies have been closely scrutinized, their
participation in the policy debates of the day has not. They
continue to be caricatured as anti-intellectual Bible thumpers
whose views are devoid of reason, logic, or empirical evidence.
They're seen as lemmings, following the cues of Dobson and
Robertson and marching in lock step with the Republican party on
the "culture wars" issues of abortion, gay rights, and guns. Is The
Good Book Good Enough? remedies the neglect of this highly
influential group, which makes up as much as a third of the
American public. It offers a carefully nuanced and comprehensive
portrait of evangelical attitudes on a wide range of policies and
their theological underpinnings. Each essay applies an evangelical
lens to a contemporary issue - environmentalism, immigration,
family and same-sex marriage, race relations, global human rights,
foreign policy and national security, social welfare and poverty,
and economic policy. The result thoroughly enriches our
understanding of evangelicalism as a prism through which many view
a wide range of policy debates.
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