- Bib ID:
- 4083352
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Viteritti, Joseph P., 1946-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007
- xvi, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- Summary:
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"The presidency of George W. Bush has polarized the church-state debate as never before. The Far Right has been emboldened to use religion to govern, while the Far Left has redoubled its efforts to evict religion from public life entirely. Fewer people on the Right seem to respect the church-state separation, and fewer people on the Left seem to respect religion itself - still less its free exercise in any situation that is not absolutely private. In The Last Freedom, Joseph Viteritti argues that there is a basic tension between religion and democracy because religion often rejects compromise as a matter of principle while democracy requires compromise to thrive. In this book, Viteritti argues that Americans must guard against debasing politics with either antireligious bigotry or religious zealotry. Drawing on politics, history, and law, he defines a new approach to the church-state question that protects the religious and the secular alike."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Fear and loathing
- Religion and public life
- Tennessee tales : revelation versus reason
- Why schools matter : historical foundations
- Politics, education, and religion
- Free exercise, vacated and denied
- Ageless wisdom : the founders on church and state
- American landscape : religion today
- Conscience and compromise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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