Philosophical Foundations of the Religious Axis

Religion, Politics, and American Political Architecture

AvJohn R. Pottenger

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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The author shows that the religious axis’ three philosophical foundations—epistemic, axiological, and political—undergird the political architecture of American liberal democracy that designed a containment structure to protect a vast array of religious expressions and encourage their presence in the public square.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-01-30
Mått:148 x 210 x 17 mm
Vikt:413 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy
Antal sidor:205
Upplaga:20001
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030339739

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John R. Pottenger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He has served as an NEH research fellow at UCLA and UC Berkeley on philosophy and history of the scientific revolution; Mellon Foundation seminar director at the College of William and Mary on liberation theology; speaker at Moscow State University, USSR, on American political science; visiting professor at the Romanian-American University on public policy; lecturer at the Institute for World Economy of the Romanian Academy on American politics; and workshop facilitator in Egypt, Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan on civil society. He is the author of Reaping the Whirlwind (2017) and The Political Theory of Liberation Theology (1989).

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction.- 2. American Political Architecture.- 3. Discerning the Religious Axis.- 4. Epistemic Foundation.- 5. Axiological Foundation.- 6. Political Foundation.- 7. Paradoxes.