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Autore: |
Greenawalt Kent <1936->
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Titolo: |
Religious convictions and political choice / / Kent Greenawalt
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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 ![]() |
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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