Mark Silk, professor of
religion in public life at Trinity College, says most American voters are «prepared to think about people who are not Protestant to be president.»
I wonder if these results from the recent Pew poll of attitudes
toward religion in public life don't foretell a real change, however partial, however qualified by any number of other factors.
Another difficulty in achieving a consensus
on religion in public life is the fact that Will Herberg's tripartite description of American religious life as Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish no longer fits American religious reality.
The aim of this conference is to promote discussion of the place of
religion in public life between people with different religious and non-religious beliefs.
In fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says
about religion in public life.
Steven Miller's «Confessions of a Rootless Cosmopolitan Jew» would be more appropriate on a psychiatrist's couch than in a serious journal of
religion in public life.
Midway through the Bush presidency, Americans became more wary of the role 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....
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.
The future of a free America requires the full participation of
religion in public life.
«I expect he would be an articulate defender of
religion in public life,» Berg said.
Many have remarked on the spontaneous resurgence 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.
But the danger is that the Court is obscuring the singular role of
religion in our public life.
Much of Marty's discussion is devoted to sorting out the various entities that figure into the complex workings of
religion in public life.
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.
That is because those appointments may well determine the outcome of everything from abortion to affirmative action to gay rights to
religion in public life.
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.
Removing traditional Christmas displays from public places suggests not neutrality about
religion in public life, but hostility.
About both of those dimensions of MLK's legacy, the acceptance of post-racialism and the exercise of
religion in public life, the left is ambivalent at best.
Rather than preaching the ruling role of
religion in public life, he champions governmental noninterference in «traditional» religious and family life.
As a proponent of the importance of
religion in public life, Neuhaus is right to be concerned, even outraged.
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.»
Some Orthodox groups have sought to ensure «equal treatment or encouragement of
religion in public life.»
In their own self - interest, believing Jews should seek and applaud judicial decisions that permit far more, rather than less, accommodation of
religion in public life.
Thus my defense of
religion in public life is first and foremost a defense of religion against the illiberal liberal who would deny it the right of free speech.
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.
Another obvious example of the dangers of
religion in public life is the abortion issue.
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?