Philosophical Foundations of the Religious Axis

Religion, Politics, and American Political Architecture

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John R. Pottenger

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Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy

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This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that converged to form the basis of liberal democracy’s approach to the place and role of religion in society and politics. Identified by the author as a “religious axis,” the period of convergence promoted rational and empirical investigation, enabled the development of diverse religious beliefs, and affirmed religious liberty and expressions amidst pluralist politics. The author shows that the religious axis’ three philosophical foundations—epistemic, axiological, and political—undergird the political architecture of American liberal democracy that designed a containment structure to protect a vast array of religious expressions and encourage their presence in the public square. Moreover, the structure embodied a democratic ethos that drives religious and political pluralism—but within limits. The author argues that this containment structure has paradoxically ignited frenzied fires of faith that politically threaten the structure’s own limits.

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John R. Pottenger is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA. He has served as an NEH research fellow at UCLA and UC Berkeley on philosophy and history of the scientific revolution; Mellon Foundation seminar director at the College of William and Mary on liberation theology; speaker at Moscow State University, USSR, on American political science; visiting professor at the Romanian-American University on public policy; lecturer at the Institute for World Economy of the Romanian Academy on American politics; and workshop facilitator in Egypt, Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan on civil society. He is the author of Reaping the Whirlwind (2017) and The Political Theory of Liberation Theology (1989).

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January 30th, 2020

Author

John R. Pottenger

Series

Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy

Pages

205

Edition

1st ed. 2020

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Professional & Vocational

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XXI, 205 p.

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9783030339739

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31690998

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