Beyond church and state : democracy, secularism, and conversion / / Matthew Scherer [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Scherer Matthew <1977->
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| Titolo: |
Beyond church and state : democracy, secularism, and conversion / / Matthew Scherer [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 322/.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Secularism |
| Religion and politics | |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: beyond the separation of church and state: secularism as conversion -- 1. The authorized narrative and crystalline structure of conversion in Augustine's Confessions -- 2. Toleration and conversion in Locke's letters: it is 'above all things necessary to distinguish' -- 3. The crystalline structure of conversion: Henri Bergson's Two Sources -- 4. Saint John (Rawls): the miracle of secular reason -- 5. The wish for a better life: Stanley Cavell's critique of the social contract -- Conclusion: from Supernovas into The Deep: secularism as conversion, a conversion of secularism. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Secularism is often imagined in Thomas Jefferson's words as 'a wall of separation between Church and State'. This book moves past that standard picture to argue that secularism is a process that reshapes both religion and politics. Borrowing a term from religious traditions, the book goes further to argue that this process should be understood as a process of conversion. Matthew Scherer studies Saint Augustine, John Locke, John Rawls, Henri Bergson and Stanley Cavell to present a more accurate picture of what secularism is, what it does, and how it can be reimagined to be more conducive to genuine democracy. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Beyond Church & State |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Beyond church and state |
| ISBN: | 1-107-23648-7 |
| 1-139-61075-9 | |
| 1-139-60903-3 | |
| 1-139-62563-2 | |
| 1-139-61261-1 | |
| 1-139-61633-1 | |
| 1-299-39999-1 | |
| 1-139-62191-2 | |
| 1-139-19926-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463343903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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