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Author Monsma, Stephen V., 1936-

Title Pluralism and freedom : faith-based organizations in a democratic society / Stephen V. Monsma
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2012

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Description 1 online resource (x, 227 p.)
Contents Chapter 1. The issue that will not go away -- Chapter 2. Faith-based organizations and the network of human services -- Chapter 3. The seedbeds of attitudes toward faith-based organizations -- Chapter 4. The partisan-political landscape today -- Chapter 5. Structural pluralism in Christian Democratic thought -- Chapter 6. Faith-based organizations in a pluralistic public square: applications
Summary "In Pluralism and Freedom, Stephen V. Monsma explores the question of how much autonomy should faith-based organizations retain when they enter the public realm? He contends that pluralism and freedom demand their religious freedom be respected, but that freedom of all religious traditions and of the general public and secular groups be equally respected, ideals that neither the left nor the right live up to. In response, Monsma argues that democratic pluralism requires a genuine, authentic--but also a limited--autonomy for faith-based organizations providing public services, and offers practical, concrete public policy applications of this framework in practice"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-217) and index
Notes English
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Subject Faith-based human services -- United States
Democracy -- Religious aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy.
Democracy -- Religious aspects
Faith-based human services
Social policy
SUBJECT United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021679586
ISBN 9781442214323
1442214325
1283447096
9781283447096
9786613447098
6613447099