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Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law : Obama's Challenge to Patriarchy's Threat to Democracy.
Title:
Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law : Obama's Challenge to Patriarchy's Threat to Democracy.
Author:
Richards, David A. J.
ISBN:
9780511681264
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Contents:
COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FUNDAMENTALISM IN AMERICAN RELIGION AND LAW -- INTRODUCTION: DEFINING THE PROBLEM -- CHAPTER 1 THE PROGRESSIVE RECOGNITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- 1. The right to intimate life -- 2. Racism, sexism, and homophobia as constitutional evils: moral slavery -- 3. Resistance to patriarchal voice as the key to resistance to anti-semitism, racism, sexism, and homophobia in the civil rights movements of the 1960s and later -- 4. The repressive psychology of patriarchy under threat -- Part I FUNDAMENTALISM IN LAW -- CHAPTER 2 THE FUNDAMENTALISM OF CONSTITUTIONAL ORIGINALISM -- 1. Originalism as fundamentalism -- 2. The unreasonableness of 'originalism': a critique -- CHAPTER 3 THE MOTIVATIONS OF CONSTITUTIONAL FUNDAMENTALISM -- Part II FUNDAMENTALISM IN RELIGION -- CHAPTER 4 FUNDAMENTALISM IN ROMAN CATHOLICISM -- 1. Vatican ii and the fundamentalism of new natural law -- 2. The internal incoherence of new natural law -- a. Historical Thomism -- b. New Natural Law as Pseudo-Thomism -- (i) Basic Goods -- (ii) Moral Absolutes -- 3. The substantive unreasonableness of new natural law -- 4. Cultural and psychological roots -- CHAPTER 5 FUNDAMENTALISM AMONG PROTESTANTS -- 1. Protestantism and constitutional democracy -- 2. Contemporary fundamentalist protestantism -- 3. A critique of protestant fundamentalism -- a. The Historical Jesus -- b. Patriarchal Formation of Christian Tradition -- c. Dependence on Augustine -- 4. Diagnosis: patriarchal culture and psychology -- CHAPTER 6 MORMON FUNDAMENTALISM -- 1. Mormon fundamentalism -- 2. The unreasonableness of mormon fundamentalism -- 3. Patriarchal culture and psychology: the role of a priesthood -- Part III FUNDAMENTALISM IN LAW AND RELIGION -- CHAPTER 7 PATRIARCHAL ROOTS OF CONSTITUTIONAL FUNDAMENTALISM.

1. The political alliance of religious fundamentalists -- 2. The link between religious and constitutional fundamentalism -- CHAPTER 8 FUNDAMENTALISM IN RELIGION AND LAW: A CRITICAL OVERVIEW -- 1. Crapanzano and sunstein on fundamentalism -- 2. The promise of barack obama for democratic constitutionalism -- 3. Implications for constitutional law and politics -- CONCLUSION: PATRIARCHY AS THE AMERICAN DILEMMA: FACING THE PROBLEM OF FUNDAMENTALISM AT HOME AND ABROAD -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Argues that fundamentalism in religion and law threatens democratic values, and discusses Obama's resistance to originalism.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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