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Pluralism and Freedom
Faith-Based Organizations in a Democratic Society
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2011
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Faith-based organizations play a major role in providing a host of health, educational, and social services to the public. Nearly all these efforts, however, have been accompanied by intense debate and numerous legal challenges. The right of faith-based organizations to hire based on religion, the presence of religious symbols and icons in rooms where government-subsidized services are provided, and the enforcement of gay civil rights to which some faith-based organizations object all continue to be subjects of intense debate and numerous court cases. In Pluralism and Freedom, Stephen V. Monsma explores the question of how much autonomy should faith-based organizations retain when they enter the public realm? He contends that pluralism and freedom demand their religious freedom be respected, but that freedom of all religious traditions and of the general public and secular groups be equally respected, ideals that neither the left nor the right live up to. In response, Monsma argues that democratic pluralism requires a genuine, authentic—but also a limited—autonomy for faith-based organizations providing public services, and offers practical, concrete public policy applications of this framework in practice.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1430-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1432-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
250
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Preface No access
Chapter 01. The Issue That Will Not Go Away No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 02. Faith-Based Organizations and the Network of Human Services No access Pages 15 - 44
Chapter 03. The Seedbeds of Attitudes towards Faith-Based Organizations No access Pages 45 - 82
Chapter 04. The Partisan-Political Landscape Today No access Pages 83 - 116
Chapter 05. Structural Pluralism in Christian Democratic Thought No access Pages 117 - 144
Chapter 06. Faith-Based Organizations in a Pluralistic Public Square No access Pages 145 - 184
