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Author(s): Dennis C. Mueller
ISBN(s): 9780521132732, 0521132738
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.93 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10:  0521132738

ISBN 13:  978-0521132732

Author:  Dennis C. Mueller 

The rise of religious fundamentalism in different parts of the world in recent years and its association with terrorism has led to renewed interest in the nature of religion and its compatibility with Western institutions. Much of the focus of this new interest has contrasted religion and science as systems of knowledge. This book also emphasizes the difference between religion and science as means for understanding causal relationships, but it focuses much more heavily on the challenge religious extremism poses for liberal democratic institutions. The treatment contains a discussion of human psychology, describes the salient characteristics of all religions, and contrasts religion and science as systems of thought. Historical sketches are used to establish a link between modernity and the use of the human capacity for reasoning to advance human welfare. The book describes the conditions under which democratic institutions can advance human welfare, and the nature of constitutional rights as protectors of individual freedoms. Extremist religions are shown to pose a threat to liberal democracy, a threat that has implications for immigration and education policies and the definition of citizenship.
 

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1 – Liberal Democracy

Part I – Fundamentals: Evolution, Psychology, Reasoning, and Religion

  • Chapter 2 – Evolution, Psychology, and Reason

  • Chapter 3 – Religion

Part II – A Historical Look at the State, Democracy, and Religion

  • Chapter 4 – The First States

  • Chapter 5 – Athens and Rome

  • Chapter 6 – The Caliphate

  • Chapter 7 – The Renaissance

  • Chapter 8 – The Enlightenment

  • Chapter 9 – Religion and Democracy After the French Revolution

  • Epilogue to Part Two

Part III – The Institutions of Liberal Democracy

  • Chapter 10 – Democracy and Citizenship

  • Chapter 11 – Rights

  • Chapter 12 – Education, Citizenship, Immigration, and Democracy

Part IV – Challenges to Liberal Democracy

  • Chapter 13 – Democracy and Religion

  • Chapter 14 – Building and Protecting Liberal Democracy

References
Author Index

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