Religious Voices in Public Places
Nigel Biggar and Linda Hogan
Abstract
Must religious voices keep quiet in public places? Does fairness in a plural society require it? Must the expression of religious belief be so authoritarian as to threaten civil peace? Do we need translation into ‘secular’ language, or should we try to manage polyglot conversation? How neutral is ‘secular’ language? Is a religious argument necessarily unreasonable? What issues are specific to Islam within this exchange? These are just some of the pressing questions addressed by this book. This book comprehends both political philosophy and theology, and moves adeptly between political theory a ... More
Must religious voices keep quiet in public places? Does fairness in a plural society require it? Must the expression of religious belief be so authoritarian as to threaten civil peace? Do we need translation into ‘secular’ language, or should we try to manage polyglot conversation? How neutral is ‘secular’ language? Is a religious argument necessarily unreasonable? What issues are specific to Islam within this exchange? These are just some of the pressing questions addressed by this book. This book comprehends both political philosophy and theology, and moves adeptly between political theory and practice. Whether offering critical analyses of key theorists such as John Rawls, Jeffrey Stout, and Jürgen Habermas, or pursuing the issue of the public expression of religion into the debate about religious education in the USA, the legalisation of euthanasia in the UK, and human rights worldwide, this book looks directly into crucial areas of religious and political complexity.
Keywords:
plural society,
religious belief,
civil peace,
secular language,
Islam,
John Rawls,
Jeffrey Stout,
Jürgen Habermas,
public expression,
religious education
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199566624 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199566624.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Nigel Biggar, editor
Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at the University of Oxford
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Linda Hogan, editor
Professor of Ecumenics and Head of School, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin
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