Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life
A Dialogue with Ambassador Douglas W. Kmiec
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 25 June 2015
- ISBN 9780190205423
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages286 pages
- Size 145x218x22 mm
- Weight 508 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life, scholars from a range of disciplines respond to an essay by leading American constitutional law and Catholic legal thought scholar Douglas W. Kmiec, examining how religion, specifically Catholicism, can contribute to democracy in a secular age.
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How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age? What can the millennia-old Catholic tradition say to church-state controversies in the United States and around the world? Secularism, Catholicism, and the Future of Public Life, presents a dialogue between Douglas W. Kmiec, a prominent scholar of American constitutional law and Catholic legal thought, and an international cast of experts from a range of fields. In his essay, "Secularism Crucified?," Kmiec illustrates the profound tensions around religion and secularism through an examination of the Lautsi case, a European judicial decision that supported the presence of crucifixes in Italian classrooms. Laying out a church-state typology, Kmiec argues for clarifying U.S. church-state jurisprudence, and advances principles to prudently limit the over-stretching impulse of religious conscience claims. In the process, he engages secular thinkers, popes, U.S. Supreme Court rulings, and President Barack Obama.
The respondents, scholars of legal theory, international relations, journalism, religion, and social science, challenge Kmiec and illustrate ways in which both scholars and citizens should understand religion, democracy, and secularism. Their essays bring together current events in Catholic life, recent social theory, and issues such as migration, the Arab Spring, and social change.
Arguably the most important and worthwhile volume on church-state relations and religion in the public square published in recent years, this book offers multiple and competing expert perspectives on several critical constitutional questions, supplies fresh empirical data on major religious freedom controversies, and spotlights potential common ground on today's most highly contentious issues. For First Amendment scholars, journalists who cover religion, and interested citizens of whatever faith or of no faith, this well-edited and engaging book is truly must reading.
Table of Contents:
Contributors
Preface
J. Bryan Hehir
Part One: Secularism and Catholicism
Introduction: Secularism, Democracy, and Catholicism
Gary J. Adler, Jr.
Secularism Crucified?
Douglas W. Kmiec
Part Two: Relations Between Church and State
Proposal for a Theoretical Linchpin for Church-State Relations
Michael Anderheiden
Secularism Resurrected? The European Court of Human Rights after Lautsi
Geoffrey R. Watson
Part Three: The Catholic Church, Moral Authority, and Secularism
Public Religion, Secularism, and the Ethos of Love
Hans Joas
The Secularization of Sin and the New Geo-Religious Politics of the Vatican
Massimo Franco
Part Four: Secularism and International Affairs
Religion, Secularism, and Social Justice Beyond the Nation-State
Erin K. Wilson
A Strategic Perspective for a New Era in Euro-Mediterranean Relations: Religion, Immigration, and a Post-Arab Spring World
Stephen Calleya
Epilogue
The Future of Secularism in Public Religious Life: The Author's Response
Douglas W. Kmiec
Index
