Religious Commitment and Secular Reason

Audi, Robert

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“…Importantly, the manner in which political authorities can persuade citizens may be compromised by religious groups. Religious groups not only use persuasion themselves, 4 but they also provide conceptions of the common good, thereby affecting which topics are discussed in the political arena (Audi, 2000). If a given religion takes little interest in secular issues, political authority may find its persuasive efforts on secular grounds futile.…”

Section: Persuasionmentioning

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Do Protestant Missionaries Undermine Political Authority? Evidence From Peru

Rink

2017

Comparative Political Studies

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThe relation between religious organizations and political authority is notoriously tense. Max Weber argued that this is because both compete over the same resource: human commitment. This article revisits Weber's hypothesis. Specifically, we explore two psychological mechanisms through which Protestant missionaries affect political authority: obedience and persuadability. Exploiting exogenous variation in missionary activity in Peru, we demonstrate that missionaries make converts more obedient, which we attribute to a theological and a social mechanism. Yet, we also find that missionaries make converts less susceptible to persuasion by political authorities because they shift attention from secular topics to questions of theological importance, and endorse a skeptical stance toward the government. Exploiting variation in treatment intensity, we argue that the degree to which political authority is affected depends on a given mission's theological strictness. We arrive at these findings by combining experimental outcomes and process-tracing evidence using Bayesian integration.

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Section: Persuasionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Do Protestant Missionaries Undermine Political Authority? Evidence From Peru

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2017

Comparative Political Studies

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“…Significantly, there is a large degree of diversity within religious organisations and communities about the correct ethical approach to the issue (Leigh 2006). This raises a dilemma for liberal democracies about how they should respond to this diversity of viewpoints in secular society (Audi 2000) and within religious communities (Cane, Evans and Robinson 2008). Is the right approach to apply the free speech principle so that debate about sexual orientation is encouraged?…”

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Religious Freedom, Free Speech and Equality: Conflict or Cohesion?

Malik

2011

Res Publica

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There have recently been a number of high profile political incidents, and legal cases, that raise questions about hate speech. At the same time, the tensions, and perceived conflicts, between religion and sexuality have become controversial topics. This paper considers the relationship between religious freedom, free speech and equality through an analysis of recent case law in Great Britain, Canada and the United States. The paper starts with a discussion of how conflicts between these values arise in areas such as hate speech and explores the differences between the European and US approach to this issue. In Council of Europe member states there is an increasing use of the criminal law to regulate hate speech. This paper argues that criminalisation of hate speech poses a distinct risk to the values of free speech and proposes alternative non-legal responses such as a greater use of cultural policy. The paper also explores a range of cases where the religion and sexual orientation conflict has arisen in areas such as the workplace. An analysis of these cases suggests that although there is no perfect resolution of this issue, it is possible to develop a set of principles that encourage a balance between the values of religious freedom, free speech and equality even in difficult situations where there is a conflict between religion and sexuality. The paper concludes with some practical recommendations for managing the tensions or conflicts between religious freedom, free speech and equality in liberal democracies.

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“…By protesting against the headscarf ban and identification of Islam on national identity cards, these individuals are participating in redrawing the cultural boundaries of citizenship and "defining who is entitled to civil, political, and social rights by granting or withholding recognition" (Nakano-Glen 2011: 3). The redrawing of these boundaries is not necessarily in the direction of what Audi (2000) has coined "liberal secularism," a complete separation between religion and politics. It is also different from a turn to "religious nationalism," which aims to build society on the basis of religion.…”

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Two Imaginaries of Citizenship in Turkey: the Republican and “Ethical” Models

Atasoy

2011

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Notions of sovereign state-rule and citizenship which rest on the twentieth century epistemology of state centrism define the "right to have rights" in terms of a national, unified category of state membership. In its association of citizenship with state sovereignty, the republican citizenship model in Turkey allows the state bureaucracy to act with key unitary agency in managing the relationship between religion and politics. In contesting the republican model on both religious and civil grounds, a notion of "ethical" citizenship has emerged based on the extension of rights and freedoms through citizen activism. This paper illustrates this process through a comparative analysis of the religiously inspired demand by female students to remove the headscarf ban and by Alevi individuals to remove the designation of Islam from national identification cards. This paper examines the political tension between two imaginaries of citizenship in Turkey: the republican design of citizenship based on the logic of state primacy and national loyalty, and the emergent notion of ethical citizenship based on social rights. I contend that the interpretative conflicts of a social change model in framing citizen relations vis-à-vis state rule are central to understanding this political tension. Specifically, the paper considers two important issues in Turkey which exemplify the emergent notion of ethical citizenship; one involves concerns raised by female students over the headscarf ban, the other relates to concerns expressed by Alevis over the designation of Islam on national identity cards. These groups aim to achieve recognition of their right to self-definition, as well as the right to live with a particular religious orientation.A brief history of the old republican model of citizenship represented by laiklik (secularism) will help situate critical issues concerning the question of citizenship rights in general. I will then provide an analysis of the religiously inspired demand for social rights by Muslim women. Following that, I will focus on Alevi claims. Alevi demands for the removal of Islam from national identity cards are evocative of important trends in the changing relations between citizens and state rule. Both cases provide an illustrative comparative perspective on the citizenship demands of religiously oriented individuals which pose a challenge to the republican model.

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Religious Commitment and Secular Reason

Cited by 238 publications

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Do Protestant Missionaries Undermine Political Authority? Evidence From Peru

Do Protestant Missionaries Undermine Political Authority? Evidence From Peru

Religious Freedom, Free Speech and Equality: Conflict or Cohesion?

Two Imaginaries of Citizenship in Turkey: the Republican and “Ethical” Models

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