Religion in the Public Square

Chapter 1 Liberal Democracy and the Place of Religion in Politics
Chapter 2 Separation of Church and State as Addressed to the State
Chapter 3 The Libertarian Principle
Chapter 4 The Equalitarian Principle
Chapter 5 The Neutrality Principle
Chapter 6 Religious Obligation and Political Conduct
Chapter 7 Grounds and Dimensions of Religious Obligation
Chapter 8 The Mutual Independence of Religious Sources of Obligation
Chapter 9 Connections among Religious and Secular Source
Chapter 10 Civic Virtue and Religious Conviction
Chapter 11 Civic Virtue
Chapter 12 Religious Commitment and Moral Obligation
Chapter 13 Theo-ethical Equilibrium
Chapter 14 Some Principles and Practices of Civic Virtue
Chapter 15 Secular Rationale
Chapter 16 Secular Motivation
Chapter 17 Civic Voice
Chapter 18 The Mutual Integration of Civic and Religious Virtues
Chapter 19 The Principle of Theo-ethical Equilibrium
Chapter 20 Separation of Church and State as Addressed to the Church
Chapter 21 Ecclesiastical Neutrality
Chapter 22 Clerical Neutrality
Chapter 23 Some Problems of Application
Chapter 24 The Role of Religion in Decision and Discussion of Political Issues
Chapter 25 The Role of Citizen and Its Ethics
Chapter 26 What Is a Liberal Democracy? The Liberal Position
Chapter 27 The Ethic of the Citizen and Restraints on Reason
Chapter 28 Are Religious Reasons too Dangerous to Permit? Locke's Version of the Liberal Position
Chapter 29 Rawl's Attempt to Identify the independent Source
Chapter 30 Does the Source Yield the Principles needed? Is It Fair to Ask Everyone to Use the Source? Rawl's Rationale
Chapter 31 What Does Respect Require? No Restraint on Religious Reasons
Chapter 32 Do We Need Consensus? The Consocial Position
Chapter 33 Application to Public Officials
Chapter 34 Wolterstorff on Religion
Chapter 35 Liberalism and Religion
Chapter 36 Wolterstorff's Critique of the Liberalism of Locke and Rawls
Chapter 37 Wolterstorff's Positive View of Religion and Politics
Chapter 38 Audi on Religion, Politics, and Liberal Democracy
Chapter 39 Audi's Version of the Liberal Position
Chapter 40 Audi's Rationale
Chapter 41 Evaluation of the Rationale
Chapter 42 Audi's Independent Source
Chapter 43 In Summary
Chapter 44 Religion, Politics, and Democracy: Closing Comments and Remaining Issues
Chapter 45 The Scope of Impartiality
Chapter 46 Consensus versus Majority Preference as Democratic Standards
Chapter 47 The Justification of Coercion
Chapter 48 Liberal Democracy and Mutual Respect
Chapter 49 Secular Reasons and Secular Motivation
Chapter 50 Index

An extremely valuable contribution on the place of religious ideas in our country's political life. . . . Clearly written and accessible . . . this book will greatly enrich both those seeking an introduction to the place of religious conviction in political life and those who have already engaged that troubling subject.