Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralist Democracies

Commendation Quotes: This book makes a powerful and important case for a greater presence of religion in contemporary democratic life and does this while insisting that this is consistent with the liberal ideals of a pluralist society. It is an important and distinguished volume. Review Quotes: Our secular traditions and rhetoric have emerged in significant part in response to the claims of non-believers, who sought protection from the intrusions of religions. Rosenblum's anthology gives a new and thoughtful voice to believers and to the significance or value of their beliefs for democratic policies and civic engagement.--John Paul Ryan "The Law and Politics Book Review "Review Quotes: A very valuable collection, making accessible in one place a number of interesting and compelling arguments about and inquiries into the relationship between religious pluralism and democracy.--Joseph M. Knippenberg "Journal of Politics "Review Quotes: Our secular traditions and rhetoric have emerged in significant part in response to the claims of non-believers, who sought protection from the intrusions of religions. Rosenblum's anthology gives a new and thoughtful voice to believers and to the significance or value of their beliefs for democratic policies and civic engagement.--John Paul Ryan "The Law and Politics Book Review "Review Quotes: A very valuable collection, making accessible in one place a number of interesting and compelling arguments about and inquiries into the relationship between religious pluralism and democracy.--Joseph M. Knippenberg "Journal of Politics "Table of Contents: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii INTRODUCTION Pluralism, Integralism, and Political Theories of Religious Accommodation Nancy L. Rosenblum 3 ONE Civil Religion Revisited: Quiet Faith in Middle-Class America Alan Wolfe 32 TWO Public Religion: Bane or Blessing for Democracy? Ronald F. Thiemann 73 THREE Believers as Equal Citizens Michael W. McConnell 90 FOUR Illusory Pluralism, Inexorable Establishment Graham Walker 111 FIVE Religion and State in the United States: A Defense of Two-Way Protection Amy Gutmann 127 SIX Amos: Religious Autonomy and the Moral Uses of Pluralism Nancy L. Rosenblum 165 SEVEN Five Questions about Religion Judges Are Afraid to Ask Kent Greenawalt 196 EIGHT The Fullness of Time Aviam Soifer 245 NINE Let Them Eat Incidentals: RFRA, the Rehnquist Court, and Freedom of Religion H. N. Hirsch 280 TEN "By the Light of Reason": Corruption, Religious Speech, and Constitutional Essentials Gary Jeffrcy Jacobsohn 294 ELEVEN Remember Amalek: Religious Hate Speech Yael Tamir 321 TWELVE Religion and Women's Equality: The Case of India Martha C. Nussbaum 335 THIRTEEN Women and International Human Rights: Some Issues under the Bridge Carol Misbrod 403 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 427 INDEX 429Review Quotes: "Our secular traditions and rhetoric have emerged in significant part in response to the claims of non-believers, who sought protection from the intrusions of religions. Rosenblum's anthology gives a new and thoughtful voice to believers and to the significance or value of their beliefs for democratic policies and civic engagement."--John Paul Ryan, "The Law and Politics Book Review" Review Quotes: "A very valuable collection, making accessible in one place a number of interesting and compelling arguments about and inquiries into the relationship between religious pluralism and democracy."--Joseph M. Knippenberg, "Journal of Politics" Marc Notes: Law, philosophy, political & social science...; Cloth @ $70.00. Publisher Marketing: Of the many challenges facing liberal democracy, none is as powerful and pervasive today as those posed by religion. These are the challenges taken up in "Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith," an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary public life. The essays in this volume suggest that two important shifts have altered the balance between the competing obligations of citizenship and faith: the growth of religious pluralism and the escalating calls of religious groups for some measure of autonomy or recognition from democratic majorities. The authors--political theorists, philosophers, legal scholars, and social scientists--collectively argue that more room should be made for religion in today's democratic societies. Though they advocate different ways of carving out and justifying the proper bounds of "church and state" in pluralist democracies, they all write from within democratic theory and share the aim of democratic accommodation of religion. Alert to national differences in political circumstances and the particularities of constitutional and legal systems, these contributors consider the question of religious accommodation from the standpoint of institutional practices and law as well as that of normative theory. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and comparative focus, this volume makes a timely and much-needed intervention in current debates about religion and politics. The contributors are Nancy L. Rosenblum, Alan Wolfe, Ronald Thiemann, Michael McConnell, Graham Walker, Amy Gutmann, Kent Greenawalt, Aviam Soifer, Harry Hirsch, Gary Jacobsohn, Yael Tamir, Martha Nussbaum, and Carol Weisbrod.

Contributor Bio:  Rosenblum, Nancy L Nancy L. Rosenblum is the Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government and chair of the Department of Government at Harvard University. She is the author of "Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America" (Princeton) and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.