Religion in politics : constitutional and moral perspectives / Michael J. Perry.
By: Perry, Michael J
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997Description: viii, 168 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 019510675X (alk. paper)Subject(s): Religion and politics -- United States | Religion and state -- United States | United States -- Religion | Constitutional law -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States | Law and ethicsDDC classification: 322/.1/0973 LOC classification: BL65.P7 | P47 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-157) and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL65.P7 P47 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902069869 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-157) and index.
The consitutional law of religious freedom. Getting from there to here -- Free exercise -- Nonestablishment -- Why nonestablishment? -- Nonestablishment conflicts -- Free exercise, nonestablishment, and the problem of "accommodation" -- Religion in politics : constitutional perspectives -- Religious arguments in public political debate. Religious arguments in pblic political debate-- and in public culture generally -- Greenawalt on religious arguments in public political debate -- Rawls's "ideal of public reason" -- Religious arguments as a basis of political choice. Religious arguments as a basis of political choice -- Religious arguments about human worth -- Religious arguments about human well-being -- A case in point : religious arguments about the morality of homosexual sexual conduct -- Finnis's secular argument about the morality of homosexual sexual conduct -- A concluding comment (mainly for theologically "conservative" Christians).