How, When, and Why Do Religious Actors Use Public Reason? The Case of Assisted Dying in Britain
The public reason criterion is a prominent theme in contemporary political theory. Yet scholars have focused predominantly on conceptual and normative issues at the expense of empirical questions about the language used by actors engaged in political debate. This is a particular problem in the case...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Politics and religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 12, Issue: 2, Pages: 385-408 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Great Britain
/ Secularism
/ Terminal care
/ Debate
/ Religious group
/ Argumantation
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CB Christian life; spirituality KBF British Isles ZB Sociology |
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| Summary: | The public reason criterion is a prominent theme in contemporary political theory. Yet scholars have focused predominantly on conceptual and normative issues at the expense of empirical questions about the language used by actors engaged in political debate. This is a particular problem in the case of religious actors, whose underlying motives for taking part in such debates are frequently driven by theological concerns. This paper explores these issues by analyzing religious opposition to the legalization of assisted dying in Britain. It shows that religious actors have tended toward the use of secular rather than theological modes of argumentation, and that this is consistent with the idea of a strategic shift in response to the increasingly secularized nature of British society. |
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| ISSN: | 1755-0491 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Politics and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S175504831800086X |