Religion and the Post-Enlightenment Liberalism of John Rawls -- Barack Obama's Civic Faith: A Post-Christian Civil Religion or Rawls's Public Reason? -- Does Toleration Require Religious Skepticism? An Examination of Locke's Teaching on Toleration -- Lincoln's Religious Statesmanship and Rawls's "Public Reason": Slavery and Biblical Theology in the Civil War -- The Theological Foundations of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy of Racial Equality and Civil Disobedience -- Can Liberalism Appropriate the Moral Contents of Religion? Habermas and Tocqueville on Religious Transformation and Democracy's Civic Life
Summary
Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faith-even as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy. How these seemingly contradictory impulses can coexist-and whether this undermines the religious tradition that makes a liberal democracy possible-are the pressing questions that Giorgi Areshidze grapples with in this exploration of the civic role of religion in American political life. The early modern Enlightenment political philosophy of John Locke has been deeply influen
