Religion in Public Life

• Explores a hot topic that regularly features in newspapers and other media - the place of religion in public life
• Has wide relevance, both in Europe and in the USA - where recent events have given the issue particular urgency
• Genuinely interdisciplinary, drawing connections between philosophy, religion, law, and politics
• Challenges the assumptions behind an easy `multi-cultural' acceptance of diversity

Readership: Scholars and students of philosophy, theology, law, politics, and social science; everyone interested in the place of religion in society.

Roger Trigg, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick

"This is as robust a defence of the claim of religious faith to be heard in the public square as one could wish. The stance is orthodox Chrisitan; the voice is the voice of sanity and calm reason. The book is an antidote to the unthinking political correctness with which we are regaled day by day government ministers and sections of the media. It is truly a tract for our times... [a] courteous but devastating polemic" - Paul Avis, Ecclesiastical Law Journal

"An important book on a vital issue" - Peter Costello The Irish Catholic

Introduction
1: Church and State
2: Reason and Freedom
3: Religious Liberty
4: Rights and Freedoms
5: Multi-Culturalism and Religion
6: The Role of the State
7: Must Democracy be Religiously Neutral?
8: Law and Religion
9: Religion in State Education
10: Must We Privatize Religion?
11: Under God?
Conclusion