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Politics derives its directions from the ethos, from the cultural sensibilities that are the context of political action. The cultural context is shaped by our moral judgments and intuitions about how the world and how it ought to be. Again, for the great majority of Americans such moral judgments and intuitions are inseparable from religious ...
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is an American conservative [2] [3] [4] and libertarian [5] [6] [7] think tank in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with an office in Rome. [8] Its stated mission is "to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles". [ 9 ]
Hirschl, Thomas A., et al. "Politics, religion, and society: Is the United States experiencing a period of religious-political polarization?." Review of European Studies 4.4 (2012): 95+ online Archived 2018-01-27 at the Wayback Machine; Jensen, Richard J. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971) online free
[4] [page needed] According to The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Ethics, religion and morality "are to be defined differently and have no definitional connections with each other. Conceptually and in principle, morality and a religious value system are two distinct kinds of value systems or action guides." [5] In the views of some ...
Deontological ethics – approach that judges the morality of an action based on the action's adherence to a rule or rules. Moral absolutism – view that certain actions are absolutely right or wrong, regardless of their circumstances such as their consequences or the intentions behind them. Thus stealing, for instance, might be considered to ...
Political theology in China includes responses from Chinese government leaders, scholars, and religious leaders who deal with the relationship between religion and politics. For two millennia, this was organized based on a Confucian understanding of religion and politics, often discussed in terms of Confucian political philosophy. [ 27 ]
In November, a chasm opened in the middle of one of the most popular online reading spaces. It started after the election, as political chatter bled into BookTok.On one side of the app, readers ...
Some political observers may see the presence of religious conservatives in the Republican Party as a threat. My former friend Kevin Phillips [author of American Theocracy], who in the early days of the New Right was so helpful, now acts as if a theocracy governs the nation. Phillips was the architect of President Richard M. Nixon's Southern ...