A Faith-Friendly Form of Rawls’s “Public Reason”? Barack Obama’s Civic Faith and the Challenge of Religion in Deliberative Politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13044707 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Giorgi Areshidze (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 304-336 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2161-1580 • E-ISSN: 2161-1599 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/697022 |
| OpenAlex | W2802571569 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
Through a case study of Barack Obama, this article evaluates the “inclusive” form of public reason that John Rawls developed in his later writings to accommodate religion. Rawls anticipated recent attempts in liberal theory and practice to reopen liberalism to religion, and Obama contributes to this effort through his engagement with the civic role of Christianity in America’s reform movements. Opening liberalism to religion may lead us to three conclusions that challenge even this more “inclusive” form of public reason: (i) translation from religious to secular reasons may not be the most productive way to accommodate religion in democracy, (ii) it may be difficult to distinguish between acceptable and unacceptable religious contributions without recourse to their underlying theological perspectives, and (iii) a more modest “constitutional consensus” may do a more effective job of accommodating religion in democracy than the “overlapping consensus” that Rawls and Obama recommend
Classical liberalism · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Establishment Clause · Faith · First amendment · Law and economics · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Public reason · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions
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The Idea Of An Overlapping Consensus
After Virtue
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
The Mutability of Public Reason
In Defense of Liberal Public Reason
Inclusion and Democracy
Against Public Reason Liberalism's Accessibility Requirement
Liberal Purposes
Political Liberalism
Democracy and Moral Conflict
Religious Commitment and Secular Reason
Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship
Rawls and Religion
Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics
Religion in the Public Square
Looking Forward to Justice
Religion and the public sphere
Translating truth
Can Liberalism Lose the Enlightenment
Reading Obama
Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory
Value Pluralism and the Problem of Judgment
Political Liberalism
Rhetoric and Public Reasoning
Rhetoric in Democracy
Five Arguments for Deliberative Democracy
A Secular State for a Postsecular Society? Postmetaphysical Political Theory and the Place of Religion
Deliberativedemocratictheory
The Rhetoric Revival in Political Theory
Rawlsian Public Reason and the Theological Framework of Martin Luther King's “Letter from Birmingham City Jail
Religion in the Public Sphere
Religion in the Oval Office
Theoretical Foundations of Liberalism
Two Concepts of Religious Liberty
Rethinking Religious Reasons in Public Justification
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |