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In this book, Linell Cady analyzes the role of religion and theology in American public life.
Author : Linell Elizabeth Cady
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791413036
In this book, Linell Cady analyzes the role of religion and theology in American public life.
Author : Kathleen M. Sands
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0195121627
Since the 1980s, religion has been most visible in American public life when issues of sexuality and reproduction are at stake. Paradoxically, however, the voices that speak most loudly in the name of religion are often unschooled in religious history, world religions, theology, or ethics. As a result, religion in America is misrepresented as anxiously and obsessively concerned with sex, and as uniformly supporting the conservative agenda of "family values." This volume corrects that distortion in American public discourse. Its thirteen previously unpublished articles introduce scholarly perspectives on issues including the family, gay rights, abortion, welfare policy, prostitution, and assisted reproduction. They richly display the complexities and conflicts that exist not only between but within America's various religious traditions--for example, the pro-choice strain within Christian history, the support of many religious denominations for gay rights, and the criticism of patriarchal family structures within religious communities past and present. In these essays, contributors put forth views of sexual ethics that are just and compassionate, respectful of cultural pluralism, and attentive to democratic processes. Thorougly researched, lucidly written, and carefully argues, this anthology will debunk the claims of the Religious Right to be the only "religious" word on sexuality in America.
Author : Linell E. Cady
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1993-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791498255
In this book, Linell Cady analyzes the role of religion and theology in American public life.
Author : Victor Anderson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 1998-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791494861
Pragmatic Theology argues for a vision of religious life that is derived from the tradition of American pragmatism (James, Dewey, Royce); empirical theology (Chicago School, D.C. Macintosh, H. Richard Niebuhr); and American philosophy of religion (Stone, Frankenberry, Corrington). The author argues that there is a divine reality in human experience that when encountered gives meaning and value to a person's need for cultural fulfillment and to his or her religious need for self-transcendence. The book commends the openness of nature, the world, and human experience to creative transformation and growth. It supports the increase of human capacities to create morally livable and fulfilling communities, the enhancement of the free play of interpretation, and a social order where democratic utopian expectations are envisioned and actualized.
Author : Charles T. Mathewes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521539906
What has Washington to do with Jerusalem? In the raging debates about the relationship between religion and politics, no one has explored the religious benefits and challenges of public engagement for Christian believers - until now. This book defends and details Christian believers' engagement in contemporary pluralistic public life not from the perspective of some neutral 'public', but from the particular perspective of Christian faith, arguing that such engagement enriches both public life and Christian citizens' faith themselves. As such it offers not a 'public theology', but a 'theology of public life', analysing the promise and perils of Christian public engagement, discussing the nature of civic commitment and prophetic critique, and the relation of a loving faith to a liberal politics of justice. Theologically rich, philosophically rigorous, politically, historically and sociologically informed, this book advances contemporary discussion of 'religion and public life' in fundamental ways.
Author : Johnson
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 2024-04
Category :
ISBN : 1647124468
Author : Mary Doak
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2004-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791462331
Argues for American national narratives in Christian theology that respect the separation of church and state and a diverse, multifaith society.
Author : Linell E. Cady
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231536046
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both tend to presume women's emancipation is ineluctably tied to secularization. Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference upsets this certainty by drawing on diverse voices and traditions in studies that historicize, question, and test the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than position secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, this volume shows both religion and the secular collaborate in creating the conditions that generate them.
Author : Corwin E. Smidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190499680
America's clergy are not just religious leaders. Their influence extends far beyond church doors. Houses of worship stand at the center of American civic life-one of the few spheres in which relatively diverse individuals gather together regularly. And the moral authority granted to pastors means that they are uniquely positioned to play a role in public debates. Based on data gathered through national surveys of clergy across four mainline Protestant (the Disciples of Christ; the Presbyterian Church, USA; the Reformed Church in America; and the United Methodist Church) and three evangelical Protestant denominations (the Assemblies of God; the Christian Reformed Church; and, the Southern Baptist Convention), Pastors and Public Life examines the changing sociological, theological, and political characteristics of American Protestant clergy over the past twenty-plus years. Smidt focuses on the relationship between clergy and politics-clergy positions on issues of American public policy, norms on what is appropriate for clergy to do politically, as well as the clergy's political cue-giving, their pronouncements on public policy, and political activism-and the impact these changes have on congregations and on American society as a whole. Pastors and Public Life is the first book to systematically examine such changes and continuity over time. It will be invaluable to scholars, students, pastors, and churchgoers.
Author : Robin W. Lovin
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN :