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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813265403321

Autore

Pritchard Elizabeth A (Elizabeth Ann)

Titolo

Religion in public : Locke's political theology / / Elizabeth A. Pritchard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-8887-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Cultural Memory in the Present

Cultural memory in the present

Disciplina

322/.1092

Soggetti

Political theology

Secularism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Fashionable religion -- Wordish ways and ritual bodies -- Liberal political theology -- Force at a distance -- Secular family values -- They're only words but they're killing me softly.

Sommario/riassunto

John Locke's theory of toleration is generally seen as advocating the privatization of religion. This interpretation has become conventional wisdom: secularization is widely understood as entailing the privatization of religion, and the separation of religion from power. This book turns that conventional wisdom on its head and argues that Locke secularizes religion, that is, makes it worldly, public, and political. In the name of diverse citizenship, Locke reconstructs religion as persuasion, speech, and fashion. He insists on a consensus that human rights are sacred insofar as humans are