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Nota Sobre Religiosidad Y Democracia [Final Proofs], Antonio-Carlos Pereira-Menaut

Antonio-Carlos Pereira-Menaut

En la discusión religión-democracia- laicismo, diversos autores católicos incurren en algunos errores. Primero, admiten un «meaculpismo » histórico no siempre fundado, y además aceptan la discusión en términos estatistas. Además, incurren en «eurocentrismo ». Finalmente, infravaloran ciertos factores de conflicto: la «vocación de iglesia» del estado, la soberanía, el desplazamiento de la política hacia lo personal, y también la pérdida de vigencia pública sufrida por tres importantes perspectivas: la especificidad de la política, el acuerdo fundamental y la masa jurídica de reglas y principios básicos.

Can Human Rights Survive Secularization, Nicholas Wolterstorff

Villanova Law Review

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Faith And Politics In The Post-Secular Age: The Promise Of President Obama, Francis J. Mootz Iii

Scholarly Works

If the modern era is properly characterized as the 'age of secularism' - a time when constitutional democracies finally have shed the last vestiges of church authority from the political realm and embrace a rationalist and humanist perspective - then the United States appears to be outside the Western mainstream. In this paper I explore how the relationship between politics and religious faith in the United States might be seen as part of the narrative of secularism that defines most other Western countries, even as the differences in the American experience might suggest an evolution of this narrative. My thesis …

Faithful Hermeneutics, Francis J. Mootz Iii

Scholarly Works

This article was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on January 9, 2009 as part of a panel on "Scriptural and Constitutional Hermeneutics." The panel was co-sponsored by the Law and Religion Section, Section on Jewish Law, and Section on Islamic Law, and the papers will be published by the Michigan State Law Review.

My article compares legal and religious hermeneutics by exploring the dual nature of what I term "faithful hermeneutics." The ambiguity evoked by this phrase is intentional. On one hand, it suggests an investigation of the relationship between legal and religious …

The Ties That Bind: Multiculturalism And Secularism Reconsidered, Brenna Bhandar

All Faculty Publications

Explores contemporary contestations over the rights of Muslim girls and women to wear the veil in both France and the U.K.