"Proceedings of the conference 'Religion and Contemporary Liberalism' held at the University of Notre Dame on February 23 and 24, 1995"--Acknowledgments. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: religion and the liberalism of reasoned respect / Paul J. Weithman -- The state, the church, and the citizen / Robert Audi -- Abstinence and exclusion: what does liberalism demand of the religiously oriented (would-be) judge? / Sanford Levinson -- Religion and women's human rights / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Political liberalisms and their exclusions of the religious / Philip L. Quinn -- Why we should reject what liberalism tells us about speaking and acting in public for religious reasons / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- The return of the prodigal? liberal theory and religious pluralism / Timothy P. Jackson -- Liberal theory, human freedom, and the politics of sexual morality / J. L. A. Garcia -- The question concerning authority / Jean Elshtain -- Deprivatizing religion and revitalizing citizenship / John A. Coleman -- Politically active churches: some empirical prolegomena to a normative approach / David Hollenbach.
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