Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures - Couverture rigide

Long, Kenneth J.

 
9781666948622: Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1666948624 ISBN 13 : 9781666948622
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2024

Synopsis

America's debates over secularism are not what they seem. Far from being primarily about religion and its place in politics, these battles over ill-defined secularism are now seen as a diversion in an escalating culture war caused by incapacitated government. Government's failure to generate needed policies have made Americans angry and unkind: liberals becoming increasingly condescending while the right becomes more transparently racist. Politicians, unable to legislate, still need voters, and they succeed by swiftly changing "issues," which are often coded as religious but are mostly about everyday matters.

Kenneth J. Long argues that public failure elicits personal vice. The liberal values of tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion are "virtues" of the condescending. The belief in science, a tool, is strange at best, and the disdain for the anti-scientific is likewise condescending. For the right, "Christian" is increasingly popular among those who are growing ever less religious and serves as cover for a racist white identity politics. Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures illuminates the troublesome outcomes posed by "protecting" autonomy through restraint of representative government and by pitting constituency against constituency to "safeguard" faith from government and vice versa. People of goodwill, faithful and not, are needed to redirect our focus from the symptoms (cultural warfare) to the structural governmental causes.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kenneth J. Long is political theorist and Professor of History and Political Science at the University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, Connecticut.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1666948624
ISBN 13 
9781666948622
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
140
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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