Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square

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Alan Mittleman
Rowman & Littlefield, 2003 - 336 من الصفحات
Religion as a Public Good: Jews and Other Americans on Religion in the Public Square explores the often controversial topic of how religion ought to relate to American public life. The sixteen distinguished contributors, both Jewish and Christian, reflect on the topic out of their own disciplines--social ethics, political theory, philosophy, law, history, theology, and sociology. and take a stand based on their religious convictions and political beliefs. The volume is at once scholarly and committed, polemic and civil, reflective and activist. Written in the shadow of 9/11, it invites a new consideration of how religion enhances democratic public life with full awareness of the dangers that religion can sometimes pose. The volume is polemical, as befits the topic, but also civil, as befits a dialogue about an issue of profound significance for democratic citizenship.
 

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The Liberal Social Contract and the Privatization of Religion
13
A Proper Blessing? The Jew and the American Public Square
27
The TheologicalPolitical Predicament of American Jewry
49
The Probable Persistence of American Jewish Liberalism
65
The Need for a Wall Separating Church and State Why the Establishment Clause Is So Important for Jews and Why Jews Are So Important for the Es...
91
American Jewry Pre and Post911
113
Traditional Judaism and American Citizenship
127
A Jewish Policy on ChurchState Relations
141
Religion and the Public Good
199
Judaism Influencing American Public Philosophy
231
911 and the Aftershocks Rethinking American Secularism and Religious Pluralism
249
The Jew in the American Public Square
267
From China to Jersey City Religious Pluralism Religious Liberty and Human Rights
285
Looking Forward From Jewish Interest to Judaic Principle
295
Index
321
About the Contributors
333

Jewish Law and American Public Policy A Principled Jewish Law View and Some Practical Jewish Observations
161
Religious Diversity and the Common Good
185

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Alan Mittleman is professor of religion at Muhlenberg College. He served as director of the Jews and the American Public Square project and edited Jewish Polity and American Civil Society and Jews and the American Public Square.

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