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Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views compares the views and principles of nine prominent ethical traditions, religious and secular, on their relationship with democracy and democratic ideals.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Patti Lenard And Margaret Moore
Buddhism
Democracy And Morality In Buddhism
Matthew J. Moore
Christianity
Christianity And Democracy
Jonathan Chaplin
Classical Liberalism
Classical Liberalism, Democracy, And Morality
Stephen Macedo
Confucianism
Democracy And Morality: A Confucian Perspective
Sungmoon Kim
Egalitarian Liberalism
Democracy And Morality: A Liberal-Egalitarian Perspective
David Miller
Feminism
Feminism, Democracy, And Morality
Noelle McAfee
Hinduism
Democracy In The Hindu Tradition
Rajeev Bhargava
Islam
The Question of Democracy In Modern Islamic Thought
Andrew F. March
Judaism
Democracy And Morality: Judaic Perspectives
Noam Zohar
Natural Law
Should Political Societies Be Democratic? An Approach From The Natural Law Tradition
Ana Marta Gonzalez
Comparing The Traditions
Patti Lenard And Margaret Moore
Selected Annotated Bibliography
Contributors
Index
About the author
Patti Lenard is Professor of Applied Ethics in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa. She is the author of Trust, Democracy and Multicultural Challenges (Penn State, 2012), How should democracies fight terrorism? (Polity Press, 2020), Debating Multiculturalism (with Peter Balint, Oxford University Press, 2022), and Ordinary Citizens, Extraordinary Actions, a case-study of St. Joseph's Parish's refugee outreach committee (with With Stéfanie Morris, Karina Juma, and Meredith Teretta, University of Ottawa Press, 2022), and Democracy and Exclusion (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). In Ottawa, she runs a small organization called Rainbow Haven, which sponsors, settles and advocates for LGBTQ refugees: https://www.facebook.com/rainbowhavenottawa/.
Margaret Moore is Professor in the Political Studies department at Queen's University Canada. She is the author of four books, on justice, nationalism and territory. Her 2015 book A Political Theory of Territory was winner of the Canadian Philosophical Association Biennial Best Book Prize in 2017 and has been the subject of journal symposia and author-meets-critics roundtables and conferences. It offers a philosophical analysis of territory, which has been largely under-theorized in political theory, which has focused on the relationship between the state and citizens. She has also written numerous chapters and articles, in such journals as Journal of Political Philosophy,American Journal of Political Science,Political Theory, Ethics & International Affairs, Philosophical Studies and Political Studies and edited or co-edited three other books, one of which is a volume in comparative ethics (The Making and Unmaking of Boundaries).
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Democracy and Morality: Religious and Secular Views compares the views and principles of nine prominent ethical traditions, religious and secular, on their relationship with democracy and democratic ideals.
