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Religious convictions and political choice / / Kent Greenawalt



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Autore: Greenawalt Kent <1936-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Religious convictions and political choice / / Kent Greenawalt Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 pages)
Disciplina: 320/.01/9
Soggetto topico: Religion and politics - United States
Religion and state - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Religion
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; I. Liberal Democracy and Publicly Accessible Reasons; 1. The Aim and Scope of the Inquiry; 2. Premises of Liberal Democracy and the Place of Religion; 3. The Relevance of Religious Convictions for Political Choice; 4. Publicly Accessible Grounds of Decision and Religious Convictions; II. Political Choices and Religious Convictions; 5. Inappropriate Grounds of Restriction: Consenting Sexual Acts as Sins; 6. Borderlines of Status I: Animal Rights and Environmental Policy; 7. Borderlines of Status II: Abortion
8. Borderlines of Status III: Religious Convictions and the Limits of Publicly Accessible Reasons9. Moral Standards, Evaluative Comparisons, and Facts: Welfare Assistance and Other Issues; 10. Church-State Problems; 11. Religious Bases That Conflict with Common Forms of Reasoning; III. Dialogue, Official Action, and Constitutionality; 12. Appropriate Political Discourse in a Liberal Society; 13. Religious Convictions and Official Action; 14. The Boundaries of Constitutionality; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This examination of an important contemporary issue begins with the basic precepts of liberal democracy, and compares rational, secular grounds for decision-making with grounds based on religious conviction.
Titolo autorizzato: Religious convictions and political choice  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-43993-9
0-19-536426-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910818012103321
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