TY - BOOK ID - 5509956 TI - Faith in politics PY - 2010 SN - 9780521130424 0521130425 9780521113335 0521113334 9780511760365 0511760361 9780511789441 0511789440 9780511784262 0511784260 0511848536 1107202868 1282725017 9786612725012 0511788711 0511786840 0511785704 0511787987 PB - Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Christianity and politics. KW - Liberalism. KW - Christianisme et politique KW - Libéralisme KW - 261.7 KW - Liberal egalitarianism KW - Liberty KW - Political science KW - Social sciences KW - Christianity KW - Church and politics KW - Politics and Christianity KW - Politics and the church KW - De Kerk en de burgerlijke macht: Kerk en Staat; godsdienstvrijheid; verdraagzaamheid; tolerantie KW - Political aspects KW - Libéralisme KW - Christianity and politics KW - Liberalism KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5509956 AB - No account of contemporary politics can ignore religion. The liberal democratic tradition in political thought has long treated religion with some suspicion, regarding it as a source of division and instability. Faith in Politics shows how such arguments are unpersuasive and dependent on questionable empirical claims: rather than being a serious threat to democracies' legitimacy, stability and freedom, religion can be democratically constructive. Using historical cases of important religious political movements to add empirical weight, Bryan McGraw suggests that religion will remain a significant political force for the foreseeable future and that pluralist democracies would do well to welcome rather than marginalize it. ER -