The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16995987 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven D Smith (0000-0001-7417-8678, corresponding author), Steven D Smith-undifferentiated |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Disenchantment of Secular Discourse (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/j.ctv1n1bshj |
| OpenAlex | W4300351198 |
| Open Library | OL29659855M |
| ISBN | 9780674056862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying -- This debased conditions often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven D. Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular rationalism that have drained our modern discourse of force and authenticity. Thus Rawlsian public reason filters appeals to religion or other comprehensive doctrines out of public deliberation. But these restrictions have the effect of excluding our deepest normative commitments, virtually assuring that the discourse will be shallow. Furthermore, because we cannot defend our normative positions without resorting to convictions that secular discourse deems inadmissible, we are frequently forced to smuggle in those convictions under the guise of benign notions such as freedom and equality. Smith suggests that this sort of smuggling is pervasive in modern secular discourse. He shows this by considering a series of controversial, contemporary issues, including the Supreme Court's assisted-suicide decisions, the harm principle, separation of church and state, and freedom of conscience. He concludes by suggesting that it is possible and desirable to free public discourse of the constraints associated with secularism and public reason
Disenchantment · Political science · Sociology · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Discussion · Secularism
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From the Sacred Canopy to the Haunted Vault
OKH Rising
Migration, religion, and schooling in liberal democratic states
Learning from diversity
Compromise, pluralism, and deliberation
Religious parties and the problem of democratic political legitimacy
On Liberalism’s Religion
Rights Constitutionalism and the Challenge of Belonging
Re-enchanting meat
Re‐embedding Moral Agency
Catholic Ethics as Seen From Padua
International politics after secularism
Secularization and Modernization
Race, religion, and the political incorporation of Indian Americans
Majority versus minority religious status and diasporic nationalism
An interpretation of political argument
Aversion to and Understanding of God Talk in the Public Sphere
Fighting Rage with Fear
Theopolitics Contra Political Theology
Newspaper Leaders as Moral Exhortation
Religiously Engaged Ethnography
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2024 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |