The Rhetoric Of Religious Freedom In The United States

Author : Eric C. Miller
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498561495

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The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States by Eric C. Miller Pdf

Though much has already been written on religious freedom in the United States, these treatments have come mostly from historians, legal scholars, and advocates, with relatively little attention from rhetorical critics. In The Rhetoric of Religious Freedom in the United States, fifteen scholars from this field address the variety of forms that free, public religiosity may assume, and which rhetorical techniques are operative in a public square populated by a diversity of religious-political actors. Together they consider the arguments, evidences, and strategies defining what religious freedom means and who is entitled to claim it in the contemporary United States.

Author : Michael I. Meyerson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300183498

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Endowed by Our Creator by Michael I. Meyerson Pdf

The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and others. Legal scholar Michael I. Meyerson investigates how the framers of the Constitution envisioned religious freedom and how they intended it to operate in the new republic. Endowed by Our Creator shows that the framers understood that the American government should not acknowledge religion in a way that favors any particular creed or denomination. Nevertheless, the framers believed that religion could instill virtue and help to unify a diverse nation. They created a spiritual public vocabulary, one that could communicate to all—including agnostics and atheists—that they were valued members of the political community. Through their writings and their decisions, the framers affirmed that respect for religious differences is a fundamental American value, Meyerson concludes. Now it is for us to determine whether religion will be used to alienate and divide or to inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.

Author : Finbarr Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1479823732

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The Production of American Religious Freedom by Finbarr Curtis Pdf

Author : Frederick Mark Gedicks
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822316668

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The Rhetoric of Church and State by Frederick Mark Gedicks Pdf

During the middle of the twentieth century, the religiously informed communitarianism that had guided the Supreme Court's decisions regarding the relationship between church and state was partially displaced by a new secular individualist discourse. In The Rhetoric of Church and State, Frederick Mark Gedicks argues that this partial and incomplete shift is the key to understanding why the Court has failed--and continues today to fail--to provide a coherent doctrine on church/state separation. Gedicks suggests that the Supreme Court's inconsistent decisions mirror a divergence in American society between an increasingly secular public culture and the primarily devout private lives of the majority of Americans. He notes that while the Court is committed to principles of secular individualism, it has repeatedly endorsed government actions that violate those principles--actions that would be far more justifiable under the discourse of religious communitarianism. The impossibility of reconciling the two discourses leaves the Court no choice but to efface--often implausibly--the religious nature of practices it deems permissible. Gedicks concludes that the road to a coherent religion clause doctrine lies neither in a return to religious communitarianism nor in its complete displacement by secular individualism, but in a yet-to-be-identified discourse that would attract popular support while protecting a meaningful measure of religious freedom.

Author : Chiara M. Migliori
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783030965501

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Religious Rhetoric in US Right-Wing Politics by Chiara M. Migliori Pdf

This book seeks to understand white conservative Christians’ support for Donald Trump, using their own words. Drawing on the triangular relationship between the 45th president, and his voters, and religious organizations, this work investigates the creation of the tale of Trump as the protector and enhancer of Christian values. The first part of the book discusses in detail the white conservative Christian constituency in the United States, and the development of feelings of displacement and resentment fostered by intergroup threat and nationalism. The central part focuses on the actor known as the “Religious Right,” through the rhetoric of one of their most representative organizations in the twenty-first century. The final part focuses on the character of Donald Trump and his peculiar relationship with religious discourse. The book demonstrates that while such discourse is expected of Trump as a Republican candidate, his approach to it is characterized by detachment and sloganized exploitation of Christian symbols. Ultimately, the book highlights the cultural tools that are crucial in the reproduction of structures of inequality and the ways they have been used by conservative politicians and groups to accumulate power.

Author : David Sehat
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199793115

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The Myth of American Religious Freedom by David Sehat Pdf

In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public life, overturning our most cherished myths. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, which had limited authority. The Protestant moral establishment ruled on the state level. Using moral laws to uphold religious power, religious partisans enforced a moral and religious orthodoxy against Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not until 1940 did the U.S. Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the states. As the Supreme Court began to dismantle the connections between religion and government, Sehat argues, religious conservatives mobilized to maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment, Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters--abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, socialist Eugene V. Debs, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the left and right, David Sehat forces us to rethink some of our most deeply held beliefs. By showing the bad history used on both sides, he denies partisans a safe refuge with the Founders.

Author : Lauren Frances Turek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501768190

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To Bring the Good News to All Nations by Lauren Frances Turek Pdf

"This book examines the growth and influence of evangelical Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assessing the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes and to impose economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that persecuted Christians and stifled evangelism"--

Author : H. Knox Thames,Chris Seiple,Amy Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124155032

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International Religious Freedom Advocacy by H. Knox Thames,Chris Seiple,Amy Rowe Pdf

The first resource of its kind, International Religious Freedom Advocacy equips activists and policymakers with an intimate knowledge of the governmental institutions, NGOs, and laws that work to safeguard religious liberties across the world. Beginning with an overview of the international legal protections, these advocacy veterans explain the intricacies of and resources available within the United Nations, European Union, Council of Europe, Organization of American States, African Union, and more. They conclude with in-depth case studies of Turkmenistan and Vietnam and a host of additional helpful information.

Author : Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226618821

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Faking Liberties by Jolyon Baraka Thomas Pdf

Religious freedom is a founding tenet of the United States, and it has frequently been used to justify policies towards other nations. Such was the case in 1945 when Americans occupied Japan following World War II. Though the Japanese constitution had guaranteed freedom of religion since 1889, the United States declared that protection faulty, and when the occupation ended in 1952, they claimed to have successfully replaced it with “real” religious freedom. Through a fresh analysis of pre-war Japanese law, Jolyon Baraka Thomas demonstrates that the occupiers’ triumphant narrative obscured salient Japanese political debates about religious freedom. Indeed, Thomas reveals that American occupiers also vehemently disagreed about the topic. By reconstructing these vibrant debates, Faking Liberties unsettles any notion of American authorship and imposition of religious freedom. Instead, Thomas shows that, during the Occupation, a dialogue about freedom of religion ensued that constructed a new global set of political norms that continue to form policies today.

Author : Jean L. Cohen,Cécile Laborde
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231540735

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Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy by Jean L. Cohen,Cécile Laborde Pdf

Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe. Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.

Author : Leslie Dorrough Smith,Steffen Führding,Adrian Hermann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1781797285

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Hijacked by Leslie Dorrough Smith,Steffen Führding,Adrian Hermann Pdf

"Whether intentionally or not much of our public discourse on religion involves a subtle, but incredibly powerful, distinction between "good" and "bad" religion. The implications of these labeling practices are far-reaching, indeed, for such judgments manifest in terms such as "fundamentalist," "radical," and "extremist," words that are often the gauge by which governments worldwide determine everything from the parameters of religious freedom, to what constitutes an act of terrorism, to whether certain groups receive legal protections. Conversely, it is often surprising to see how different groups that may otherwise better typify the extremist profile remain unscathed by punitive governmental or social measures because of their pre-existing social popularity or perceived normalcy. This volume argues that public inquiry into religion is guided by unspoken value judgments, which are themselves the products of rarely-discussed political interests. Put differently, is quite easy for scholars to revoke or impart religious "credentials" to a group depending on whether that group's members behave as outside commentators think religious people should"--

Author : Davis W. Houck,David E. Dixon
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781932792546

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Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 by Davis W. Houck,David E. Dixon Pdf

V.2: Building upon their critically acclaimed first volume, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon's new Rhetoric, Religion, and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965 is a recovery project of enormous proportions. Houck and Dixon have again combed church archives, government documents, university libraries, and private collections in pursuit of the civil rights movement's long-buried eloquence. Their new work presents fifty new speeches and sermons delivered by both famed leaders and little-known civil rights activists on national stages and in quiet shacks. The speeches carry novel insights into the ways in which individuals and communities utilized religious rhetoric to upset the racial status quo in divided America during the civil rights era. Houck and Dixon's work illustrates again how a movement so prominent in historical scholarship still has much to teach us. (Publisher).

Author : Gary S. Selby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131707528

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Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom by Gary S. Selby Pdf

Selby explains how King constructed a symbolic framework for interpreting the setbacks of the Civil Rights movement, even as he challenged them to remain faithful to the cause.

Author : James W. Vining
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793622839

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New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion by James W. Vining Pdf

New Directions in Rhetoric and Religion reflects the complex and fluid natures of religion, rhetoric, and public life in our globalized, digital, and politically polarized world by bringing together a diverse group of rhetorical scholars to provide a comprehensive and forward-looking collection on rhetoric and religion. This volume addresses these topics in three separate sections: 1. Rhetorics of religion at work in public activism, 2. Rhetorics of religion in contemporary public discourse, and 3. Ways that rhetoric scholars study religion. Scholars of rhetoric, religion, and social sciences will find this book particularly interesting.

Author : Eric C. Miller,Jonathan J. Edwards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793620767

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Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America by Eric C. Miller,Jonathan J. Edwards Pdf

In Rhetoric of the Protestant Sermon in America: Pulpit Discourse at the Turn of the Millennium, ten scholars analyze notable sermons from the fifty-year span between 1965 and 2015, during which the Protestant sermon has undergone significant change in the United States. Contributors examine how this turbulent time period witnessed a variety of important shifts in the arguments, evidences, and rhetorical strategies employed by contemporary preachers. Because religious practice is inextricably tangled in the culture, politics, and economy of its historical situation, the public expression of a faith is certain to move with the times. In their treatment of race, sex, gender, class, and citizenship, sermons apply ancient texts to current events and controversies, often to revealing effect. This collection, thoughtfully edited by Eric C. Miller and Jonathan J. Edwards, demonstrates how the genre of the Protestant sermon has evolved—or resisted evolution—across the years. Scholars of religion, rhetoric, communication, sociology, and cultural studies will find this book particularly useful.