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The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics

The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics

Hollenbach, David

Paperback

Series: Moral Traditions

CatholicismChristian LivingGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0878401393
ISBN13: 9780878401390
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: Oct 9 2003
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

The Global Face of Public Faith addresses the hotly debated question of the role religion should play in politics in both the American and international contexts. It engages the fears that public religion threatens American democracy and could lead to a global clash of civilizations and new wars of religion. It analyzes how Christianity can attain common ground with other religious communities, thus becoming a force for peace and human rights. The separation of church from state need not mean the privatization of religion. Religious engagement in public life can strengthen civic life by encouraging active citizen participation that promotes both justice and peace. The question of religion and politics should thus become an argument about how faith becomes public, not whether it does. Religious communities, Christianity in particular, should be vigorous advocates of human rights, democratic governance, and economic development worldwide. In so doing, they will also become peacemakers.

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