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1 online resource (358 pages) |
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Challenging the political : religious actors and religious arguments in liberal democracies / Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann, Ulrich Willems -- Discursive strategies of Catholic churches in assisted reproduction technology regulation : Poland and Spain in comparison / Anja Hennig -- The role of religion in debates on embryo research and surrogacy in France / Jennifer Merchant -- Embryonic silences : human life between biomedicine, religion, and state authorities in Austria / Ingrid Metzler, Anna Pichelstorfer -- Moral politics in Ireland : from religious domination to political indifference / Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann -- Biotechnology and the nonreligious uses of God talk / John H. Evans -- The political debate on embryo research in New Zealand and the role of religious actors and arguments / David Gareth Jones -- The political debate on embryo research in Australia and the role of religious actors and arguments / Frank O'Keeffe, Kevin McGovern -- The status of the human embryo : a case study of embryo experiments and embryo research in Denmark / Jacob Dahl Rendtorff -- Religion and biopolitics in Sweden / Göran Hermerén, Mats Johansson -- Consensus vs. confrontation : negotiating embryo politics in Norway and Italy / Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann, Massimiliano Passerini -- The role of religion in the political debate on embryo research in the Netherlands / Wybo J. Dondorp, Guido M.W.R. de Wert -- Moralizing embryo politics in Germany : between Christian-inspired values and historical constrains / Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann, Ulrich Willems -- Bioethics and biopolitics in Switzerland : stem cell research and preimplantation diagnostics in the public discourse / Monika Bobbert, Yvonne Zelter -- Morality policies : how religion and politics interplay in democratic decision-making / Nathalie Schiffino |
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Challenging the Political: Religious Actors and Religious Arguments in Liberal Democracies; 1 Introduction: Religion and the Formation of Public Policy; 2 The Institutional Separation of Religion and Politics; 2.1 Religious Arguments in Liberal Democracies; 3 The Development of the Biopolitical Debate; 3.1 Discursive Strategies of Religious Actors Within the Bio-political Debate; 4 Characteristics of Religious Arguments; 4.1 Epistemological Status and Empirical Operationalization; References |
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Part II: Catholic-Latin States with Low Level or Little Religious PluralismChapter 2: Discursive Strategies of Catholic Churches in Assisted Reproduction Technology Regulation: Poland and Spain in Comp ... ; 1 Introduction; 2 Incompatible Views on ART Legislation; 3 Varying ART Legislation and Church-State Relations in Poland and Spain; 4 Discursive Strategies of Religious Actors; 4.1 Framing of the Problem; 4.2 Secular or Religious Language; 4.3 Secular or Religious Sources of Legitimation; 4.4 Modes of Intervention; 5 Bioethics and Discursive Strategies of the Vatican |
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5.1 Humanae Vitae (1968)5.2 Donum Vitae; 5.3 Evangelium Vitae (1995); 5.4 Dignitas Personae (2008); 5.5 Discursive Strategies of the Vatican; 6 ART Regulation and Catholic Discursive Strategies in Spain and Poland; 6.1 Spain (1980s-2013): Contesting Spainś First ART Regulation in the 1980s; 6.2 Mid 1990s-Mid 2000: In Defense of Adult Stem Cell Research; 6.3 2003: Conservative Government and Policy Change in Accordance with the Church; 6.4 Mobilizing the Faithful Under the New Left Government; 6.5 Political Arguments; 6.6 2006: Toward the Permissive Law 14/2006 |
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6.7 2007: The Permissive Bioethics Law6.8 Poland (1990s-2015): The 1990s-The Catholic Fight Against Abortion; 6.9 2007: In Vitro on the Agenda: The Church in Opposition; 6.10 Since 2009: In Vitro Dividing the Center-Right; 6.11 Uncompromising Episcopate; 6.12 2015: Direct Church Intervention in the Context of ART Decision-Making; 7 Discursive Strategies in Comparison; 8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: The Role of Religion in Debates on Embryo Research and Surrogacy in France; 1 Introduction; 2 Embryo Research; 3 Surrogacy; 3.1 Elements of Discourse on the Subject |
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3.2 The ̀̀Dangers of Marriage for All:́́ The Circular Reasoning of Surrogacy and the Abolition of the Sexes4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Embryonic Silences: Human Life Between Biomedicine, Religion, and State Authorities in Austria; 1 Introduction; 2 Background: The Catholic Church in the Austrian Polity and Its History; 2.1 The Position of the Catholic Church in Austria; 2.2 The Position of the Catholic Church in the History of the Austrian Polity; 2.3 A Moment of Disruption: The Abortion Debates of the 1970s; 2.4 Resealing the Black Box of Unborn Human Life |
| Summary |
Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes. Further, it analyzes the ways in which religious traditions and actors formulate their bio-ethical positions and which rationales they use to validate their positions. The book offers a range of case studies on fourteen Western democracies, highlighting the bio-ethical and political debates over human stem cell research, therapeutic and reproductive cloning, and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. The contributing authors illustrate the ways in which national political landscapes and actors from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral stances, premises and commitments formulate their bio-ethical positions and seek to influence political decisions |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 25, 2019) |
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Religion and politics.
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Religion and science.
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Religion and politics
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Religion and science
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Weiberg-Salzmann, Mirjam, editor
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Willems, Ulrich, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783030145804 |
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3030145808 |
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