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| Author | : Gustav Niebuhr |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780670019564 |
Examines the nature of community and religion in the United States, traces the origins of religious freedom along with its advances and setbacks, and surveys the diverse range of religious faith throughout the nation.
| Author | : Philip Jenkins |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2003-07 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0814742637 |
Jenkins looks at the first amendment and how it should be applied to child pornography on the internet.
| Author | : Ryan Muldoon |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 143 |
| Release | : 2016-10-14 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1134793545 |
Very diverse societies pose real problems for Rawlsian models of public reason. This is for two reasons: first, public reason is unable accommodate diverse perspectives in determining a regulative ideal. Second, regulative ideals are unable to respond to social change. While models based on public reason focus on the justification of principles, this book suggests that we need to orient our normative theories more toward discovery and experimentation. The book develops a unique approach to social contract theory that focuses on diverse perspectives. It offers a new moral stance that author Ryan Muldoon calls, "The View From Everywhere," which allows for substantive, fundamental moral disagreement. This stance is used to develop a bargaining model in which agents can cooperate despite seeing different perspectives. Rather than arguing for an ideal contract or particular principles of justice, Muldoon outlines a procedure for iterated revisions to the rules of a social contract. It expands Mill's conception of experiments in living to help form a foundational principle for social contract theory. By embracing this kind of experimentation, we move away from a conception of justice as an end state, and toward a conception of justice as a trajectory. Listen to Robert Talisse interview Ryan Muldoon about Social Contract Theory for a Diverse World on the podcast, New Books in Philosophy: http://tinyurl.com/j9oq324 Also, read Ryan Muldoon’s related Niskanen Center article, "Diversity and Disagreement are the Solution, Not the Problem," published Jan. 10, 2017: https://niskanencenter.org/blog/diversity-disagreement-solution-not-problem/
| Author | : Gustav Niebuhr |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 2008-07-31 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1440630089 |
At a time when religious conflict and violence seem to dominate the media, distinguished religion journalist Gustav Niebuhr set off across America to find people who are building, not burning, the bridges between faiths. As he travels across the country-from Queens and Baltimore to Louisville and Los Angeles-he finds Buddhists, Catholics, Jews, Baptists, Muslims, and Episcopalians reaching out to one another to find common ground between their faiths. This insightful and deeply felt exploration of the nature of community and religion is a tribute to their efforts and a boost of much-needed optimism that reminds all Americans of their common goals, no matter their faith.
| Author | : Nancy J. Evans |
| Publisher | : American College Personnel Association Series |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
This book provides strategies for using what is known about gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals in a college student affairs setting. These chapters are included: (1) "The Development of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identities" (Heidi Levine and Nancy J. Evans); (2) "Using Psychosocial Development Theories To Understand and Work with Gay and Lesbian Persons" (Vernon A. Wall and Nancy J. Evans); (3) "Homophobia" (Kathy Obear); (4) "Understanding Gay and Lesbian Students of Color" (Vernon A. Wall and Jamie Washington); (5) "Addressing Lesbian and Gay Issues in Residence Hall Environments" (Donna Bourassa and Bill Shipton); (6) "Addressing Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Issues in Fraternities and Sororities" (Michael J. Hughes); (7) "Working with Gay and Lesbian Student Organizations" (Dick Scott); (8) "Life Planning and Career Counseling with Gay and Lesbian Students" (Cheryl Hetherington); (9) "Counseling Gay and Lesbian Students" (Natalie S. Eldridge and David C. Barnett); (10) "Issues of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Student Affairs Professionals" (Maura Cullen and Jim Smart); (11) "Becoming an Ally" (Jamie Washington and Nancy J. Evans); and (12) "Including Bisexuality: It's More than Just a Label" (Raechele L. Pope and Amy L. Reynolds). A resource list compiled by Shawn-Eric Brooks includes these categories: general works on gay, lesbian,and bisexual lifestyles; coming out; counseling issues; spirituality, religion, and homosexuality; diversity within the gay, lesbian, and bisexual community; gay and lesbian literature; programming resources; movies/videos; journals and magazines; and gay and lesbian organizations. (ABL)
| Author | : Michelangelo Signorile |
| Publisher | : HMH |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2015-04-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0544409582 |
The author of Queer in America offers “brilliant advice” for safeguarding the future of gay rights (The Advocate). Marriage equality is the law of the land. Closet doors have burst open in business, entertainment, and even major league sports. But as Michelangelo Signorile argues in his most provocative book yet, the excitement of such breathless change makes this moment more dangerous than ever. Signorile marshals stinging evidence that an age-old hatred, homophobia, is still a basic fact of American life. He exposes the bigotry of the brewing religious conservative backlash against LGBT rights and challenges the complacency and hypocrisy of supposed allies in Washington, the media, Silicon Valley, and Hollywood. Just as racism did not disappear with the end of Jim Crow laws or the election of Barack Obama, discrimination and hostility toward gay Americans hasn’t vanished simply by virtue of a Supreme Court decision. Not just a wake-up call, It’s Not Over is also a battle plan for the fights to come in the march toward equality. Signorile tells the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans who have refused to be merely tolerated and are demanding full acceptance. He documents signs of hope in schools and communities finding new ways to combat ignorance, bullying, and fear. Urgent and empowering, It’s Not Over is a necessary book from “one of America’s most incisive critics and influential activists in the movement for gay equality” (The Intercept).
| Author | : Robert Paul Wolff |
| Publisher | : Jonathan Cape |
| Total Pages | : 152 |
| Release | : 1969 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Denis Lacorne |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2019-05-07 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0231547048 |
The modern notion of tolerance—the welcoming of diversity as a force for the common good—emerged in the Enlightenment in the wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious tolerance is increasingly being challenged by frightened publics. In this book, Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to its contemporary tensions. In a wide-ranging argument that spans the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian republic, and recent controversies such as France’s burqa ban and the white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, The Limits of Tolerance probes crucial questions: Should we impose limits on freedom of expression in the name of human dignity or decency? Should we accept religious symbols in the public square? Can we tolerate the intolerant? While acknowledging that tolerance can never be entirely without limits, Lacorne defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society cannot survive. Awarded the Prix Montyon by the Académie Française, The Limits of Tolerance is a powerful reflection on twenty-first-century democracy’s most fundamental challenges.
| Author | : Darel E. Paul |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Gay couples |
| ISBN | : 9781481306959 |
Over the last twenty-five years, a dramatic transformation in the American public's view of homosexuality has occurred, symbolized best by the movement of same-sex marriage from the position of a fringe few to the pinnacle of morality and a cornerstone of establishment thought. From Tolerance to Equality explores how this seismic shift of social perspective occurred and why it was led by the country's educational and business elite. Rejecting claims of a commitment to toleration or a heightened capacity for moral sympathy, author Darel E. Paul argues that American elites use opinion on homosexuality as a mark of social distinction and thus as a tool for accumulating cultural authority and political power. Paul traces this process through its cultural pathways as first professionals and, later, corporate managers took up the cause. He marshals original data analysis and chapters on social class and the family, the ideology of diversity, and the waning status of religious belief and authority to explore the factors behind the cultural changes he charts. Paul demonstrates the high stakes for same-sex marriage's mostly secular proponents and mostly religious opponents--and explains how so many came to fight so vigorously on an issue that directly affects so few. In the end, From Tolerance to Equality is far more than an explanation of gay equality and same-sex marriage. It is a road map to the emerging American political and cultural landscape.
