Tragic Soul-Life by Terrence L Johnson

Tragic Soul-Life by Terrence L Johnson

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Zusammenfassung

A debate on the proper role of religion in politics as one about liberalism's failure to address the moral issues implicated in human suffering, subjugation and death as they emerge within political responses to antiblack racism, imperialism and sexism.

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Tragic Soul-Life by Terrence L Johnson

Contemporary debates on the role of religion in American public life ignore the overlap between religion and race in the formation of American democratic traditions and more often than not imagine democracy within the terrain of John Rawls's political liberalism. This kind of political liberalism, which focuses on political commitments at the expense of our religious beliefs, fosters the necessary conditions to open historically closed doors to black bodies, allows blacks to sit at the King's table and creates the necessary safeguards for black protest against discrimination within a constitutional democracy. By implication of its emphasis on rights and inclusion, political liberalism assumes that the presence of black bodies signifies the materialization of a robust American democracy. However, political liberalism discounts the historical role of religion in forming and fashioning the nation's construction of race. Tragic Soul-Life argues that the collision between religion and politics during U.S. slavery and segregation created the fragments from which emerged a firm but shifting moral disdain for blackness within the nation's collective moral imagination. The very problem political liberals want to avoid, our comprehensive philosophy, is central to solving the political and economic problems facing blacks.
a stimulating treatise on American democracy through a Du Boisian lens.. Recommended. * J.M Robinson, Choice *
Johnson is an Assistant Professor or Religion at Haverford College.
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ISBN 13 9780195383980
ISBN 10 0195383982
Titel Tragic Soul-Life
Autor Terrence L Johnson
Serie Imagining The Americas
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Verlag Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsjahr 2012-07-12
Seitenanzahl 208
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