The American experiment is inseparable from a religiously grounded morality that produced a polity that not only tolerates but requires the vibrant
exercise of religion in public life.
By my reading of both the human condition and our current culture, a project like Hart's is more important to the
status of religion in public life than, say, arguments for a natural law.
Eight
stories of religion in public life, three of them sad: On the suffering of Christians in Egypt, Silent Night, from Foreign Policy.On Pentecostalism in Malawi, Angels and Demons, also from Foreign Policy.On Charismatics in England, Pentecostalism Invades Lambeth Palace, from Peter....
Marty, long a defender of «public religion,» does not address this controversy explicitly, but his observations about the practical
realities of religion in public life have clear relevance to the topic.
Midway through the Bush presidency, Americans became more wary of the role
of religion in public life.
The battle in the churches is an extension of that cultural war but, given the role
of religion in public life, it is also an effort to capture the churches» moral authority in that larger conflict.
Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role
of religion in public life and discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.
In the end, the role
of religion in public life is a prism through which to observe the survival — or atrophy — of American Judaism.
For another example, in these five years there has been a marked change in thinking about church - state relations and, more generally, about the role
of religion in public life.
Liberalism began as a political project that sought to curtail the role
of religion in public life.
Rather than preaching the ruling role
of religion in public life, he champions governmental noninterference in «traditional» religious and family life.
In 2006, though, Gingrich wrote a book called «Rediscovering God in America» - part of a new canon of work he has done reaffirming the role
of religion in public life.
Nor do I see any awareness among American Jews of the irony inherent in religiously identifiable groups arguing against the place
of religion in public life.
The jumping - off point for this symposium is the contention that Jews are «increasingly contending for «equal time» in law and government programs that encourage rather than restrict the role
of religion in public life.»
Jewish leaders are increasingly contending for «equal time» and «equal protection» in laws and government programs that encourage rather than restrict the role
of religion in public life.
Have we moved from a government unprepared to engage with matters of faith to a new understanding of the role
of religion in public life?
Together with the AHRC Religion and Society programme and Charles Clarke, they are running the Westminster Faith Debates, presenting the best research about the place
of religion in public life.
Secondly, Ahok's case has implications for the future of freedom of speech and the role
of religion in public life and politics.
The nonpartisan, New York City - based research organization polled Americans about their attitudes toward the role
of religion in public life, from the campaign trail to the classroom.
Whatever the outcome — which is perhaps predictable — the Court's ruling will have a significant influence on the place
of religion in public life and on how the relationship between religion and the state should be structured to reflect the aims of fairness and mutual respect envisaged in the Convention.
The Court engaged in conceptual analyses about freedom and the role
of religion in public life.