Religion, humility, and democracy in a divided America /

• Other Authors: Braunstein, Ruth (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.
• Series: Political power and social theory ; v. 36.
• Subjects: Religion and politics > United States.; Democracy > United States.; Social Science > Sociology of Religion.; Religion & politics.

This volume asks how religious convictions inform citizens' engagement in American democratic life, particularly across deep political divides. Strong religious convictions motivate citizens across the political spectrum to engage in public life, yet are also viewed as a driver of political pol...

Table of Contents:

• Prelims
• Beyond the dogmatic believer: religious conviction across the American political divide
• Religion as source, resource, evaluation, and hindrance: intellectual humility and the relationship between religion and politics
• Reflexive evangelicalism
• Intellectual humility and recognition of the other: evangelical public discourse with muslims
• Humility: rooted in relationship, reaching for justice
• Passion and virtue in public life: focal practices and the political holiness the world needs
• Ontic webs: a new framework for public sociology
• Index.