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Authors: Alan L. Mittleman, Alan L. Mittleman
ISBN-13: 9780742531253, ISBN-10: 0742531252
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: November 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Alan L. Mittleman

Book Synopsis

This book explores the often controversial topic of how religion ought to relate to American public life. The sixteen distinguished contributors, both Jewish and Christian, reflect on the topic out of their own disciplines-which include social ethics, political theory, philosophy, law, history, theology, and sociology.

	Introduction	1
1	The Liberal Social Contract and the Privatization of Religion	13
2	"A Proper Blessing?": The Jew and the American Public Square	27
3	The Theological-Political Predicament of American Jewry	49
4	The Probable Persistence of American Jewish Liberalism	65
5	The Need for a Wall Separating Church and State: Why the Establishment Clause Is So Important for Jews and Why Jews Are So Important for the Establishment Clause	91
6	American Jewry, Pre- and Post-9/11	113
7	Traditional Judaism and American Citizenship	127
8	A Jewish Policy on Church-State Relations	141
9	Jewish Law and American Public Policy: A Principled Jewish Law View and Some Practical Jewish Observations	161
10	Religious Diversity and the Common Good	185
11	Religion and the Public Good	199
12	Judaism Influencing American Public Philosophy	231
13	9/11 and the Aftershocks: Rethinking American Secularism and Religious Pluralism	249
14	The Jew in the American Public Square	267
15	From China to Jersey City: Religious Pluralism, Religious Liberty, and Human Rights	285
	Afterword: Looking Foreward: From Jewish Interest to Judaic Principle	295
	Index	321
	About the Contributors	333

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