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Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures

Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures

Long, Kenneth J.

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral LawInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1666948624
ISBN13: 9781666948622
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jan 5 2024
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

America's debates over secularism are not what they seem. Far from being primarily about religion and its place in politics, these battles over ill-defined secularism are now seen as a diversion in an escalating culture war caused by incapacitated government. Government's failure to generate needed policies have made Americans angry and unkind: liberals becoming increasingly condescending while the right becomes more transparently racist. Politicians, unable to legislate, still need voters, and they succeed by swiftly changing issues, which are often coded as religious but are mostly about everyday matters.

Kenneth J. Long argues that public failure elicits personal vice. The liberal values of tolerance, acceptance, and inclusion are virtues of the condescending. The belief in science, a tool, is strange at best, and the disdain for the anti-scientific is likewise condescending. For the right, Christian is increasingly popular among those who are growing ever less religious and serves as cover for a racist white identity politics. Problems of Political Secularism: Broken Politics, Unkind Cultures illuminates the troublesome outcomes posed by protecting autonomy through restraint of representative government and by pitting constituency against constituency to safeguard faith from government and vice versa. People of goodwill, faithful and not, are needed to redirect our focus from the symptoms (cultural warfare) to the structural governmental causes.

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