Overcoming the Divisiveness of Religion: A Response to Paul J. Weithman
Comprehensive mutual respect is an unassailable ideal but does little to reveal what is actually going on--or even what ought to go on--as we negotiate the conflicts of values implicit in social controversies and policy challenges. Rather than imagining that we can or should, by an exercise of relig...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1994
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 1994, Volume: 22, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-51 |
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| Summary: | Comprehensive mutual respect is an unassailable ideal but does little to reveal what is actually going on--or even what ought to go on--as we negotiate the conflicts of values implicit in social controversies and policy challenges. Rather than imagining that we can or should, by an exercise of religious self-restraint, avoid creating situations of suspicion, anxiety, and conflict, we would do better to allow what is latent, operative, and inevitable to become explicit. Only by this means can we effectively bring the distinctive resources of our religious traditions to bear on the problems of our common life in a democratic polity. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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