Conscience and Community
Conscience and Community

Author: Andrew R. Murphy

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2015-11-05

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 027103176X

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Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional emergence of toleration to find not a series of self-evident or logically connected expansions but instead a far more complex evolution. Murphy argues that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the actual historical development of toleration in theory and practice. Murphy approaches the concept through three "myths" about religious toleration: that it was opposed only by ignorant, narrow-minded persecutors; that it was achieved by skeptical Enlightenment rationalists; and that tolerationist arguments generalize easily from religion to issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, providing a basis for identity politics.

Conscience and Community
Conscience and Community

Author: Andrew R. Murphy

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2009-03-02

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780271041377

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Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional emergence of toleration to find not a series of self-evident or logically connected expansions but instead a far more complex evolution. Murphy argues that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the actual historical development of toleration in theory and practice. Murphy approaches the concept through three "myths" about religious toleration: that it was opposed only by ignorant, narrow-minded persecutors; that it was achieved by skeptical Enlightenment rationalists; and that tolerationist arguments generalize easily from religion to issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, providing a basis for identity politics.

Conscience & Community
Conscience & Community

Author: Paul N. Ylvisaker

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780820438450

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Collection of speeches and writings from 1949 to 1990.

Community and Conscience
Community and Conscience

Author: Gideon Shimoni

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9781584653295

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The first thorough account of South African Jewish religious, political, and educational institutions in relation to the apartheid regime.

Colleges with a Conscience
Colleges with a Conscience

Author: Princeton Review (Firm)

Publisher: Princeton Review

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780375764806

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Students don't have to choose between improving the world and succeeding in college.Colleges with a Conscienceprovides detailed information geared toward prospective college students searching for facts about life that go beyond raw admissions statistics. SCHOOL PROFILES Colleges with a Conscienceis a unique guide to 81 carefully selected service-learning programs. Students can learn how to get involved, find financial support for service, and integrate community work with academic life. SMART RESEARCH From sorting through mountains of view books to preparing for a campus tour, The Princeton Review informs students about finding a socially responsible college, including a "How To" list of questions, such as: ·What role do students have in university decision making? ·What kinds of volunteer opportunities are available to students? ·What is the relationship between the university and its surrounding community? ·What are the university’s policies on issues such as fair labor, living wage of its employees, and food salvaging? ·How does the institution support student political activism and civic engagement? STUDENT PROFILES With a chapter devoted to profiling students who are leaders on their campuses, book buyers can read about real college students who balance social activism with school and college life.

Short Route to Chaos
Short Route to Chaos

Author: Stephen Arons

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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Short Route to Chaos develops a series of specific suggestions for reform based on the principle that education, like religion, is a matter of conscience in which families should be free to select their children's schools and public funding should be allocated equally for each child, regardless of wealth or geographic location. The author goes on to propose public debate about a possible education amendment to the U.S. Constitution. His book is an impassioned call for a pragmatic and populist re-constitution of American schooling - one that respects conscience, supports community, and reinvigorates the principles of constitutional democracy.

Women of Conscience
Women of Conscience

Author: Janet Duitsman Cornelius

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781570037467

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Prologue: The diary of Mary Forbes -- Church ladies -- Sisters of the club -- Board ladies -- Currents of reform -- "A robust, gritty crew"--"Sin City" and its reformers -- "Forces to be reckoned with"--Epilogue: The diary of Doris Zook

War and Christian Conscience
War and Christian Conscience

Author: Fahey, Joseph J.

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2014-04-10

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1608334694

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This primer on war and the Christian conscience begins in an imaginary college classroom as students react to news that the draft has been reinstated. ""Why cant I finish college?"" asks one student. ""Why do I have to go?"" These urgent and personal questions offer the entry to a clear and comprehensive outline of the basic Christian responses to the problem of war. As Fahey shows, the Christian tradition has supplied a variety of answers, including pacifism, just war teaching, the ethic of ""total war,"" and the vision of a ""world community."" In the face of these different approaches, how are we to decide which one is right? And more basically, how does one go about forming ones personal conscience? For all who ponder these moral challenges--whether as young people facing the question of military service, or as counselors, chaplains, or teachers--this book offers an essential and practical guide.