Religion -- Context And Crisis
From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space, William T. Cavanaugh: Cavanaugh alerts the reader immediately, based on Martin Marty's book (Politics, Religion, and the Common Good) that there are conflicts in this world when it comes to religious beliefs and political values. And the thrust of Cavanaugh's scholarly article is that there needs to be a balance between social unity and the American Constitutional rights that allow groups to identify with their faith through pluralism.
In Cavanaugh's referencing of Marty (299), violence was visited upon Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) in the 1940s, in part because the JW dogma did not allow children to salute the American Flag. But Marty fails to stand up against the "zealous nationalism" that fuels the distrust, loathing and even violence against the JW faith. Marty asserts that religion " ... can cause all kinds of trouble in the public arena" (Cavanaugh 2006).
This provides an opening for Cavanaugh, who clearly believes that religion does not and should not be a movement that conforms to political agendas, and the theme of the first portion of Cavanaugh's chapter is that there are two distinct public spaces (or cities) within a nation like the United States: there is unity ("which is essential") and pluralism. Of course the Constitution guarantees the right of religious freedom, which means that religious pluralism is a legal part of the civil society, even when right wing nationalistic bombast tries to assert that blind patriotism supersedes faith-based pluralism.
But unity, if it means that everyone has to fit into the national political goals -- that is, everyone should get...
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