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An immeasurable amount of work has been published on the topic of Public Role of Faith in Liberal Democracy. Please see a reading list we have collected to point out a few we think are important.


Cahill, Lisa Sowle. “Theological Ethics, the Churches, and Global Politics.” Journal of Religious Ethics 35, no. 3 (2007): 377-95.

Greenawalt, Kent. “Appropriate Political Discourse in a Liberal Society” and “Religious Convictions and Official Action.” Chs. 12 & 13 in Religious Convictions and Political Choice, 215-41. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Hollenbach, David. “Faith in Public.” Ch. 1 in The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics, 3-16. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003.

Jacoby, Susan. “America’s Tower of Religious Babble is Already Too High.” In Debating the Divine: Religion in 21st Century American Democracy, edited by Sally Steenland, 53-5. Washington, D. C.: Center for American Progress, 2008.

Patel, Eboo. “Religious Pluralism in the Public Square.” In Debating the Divine: Religion in 21st Century American Democracy, edited by Sally Steenland, 17-24. Washington, D. C.: Center for American Progress, 2008.

Perry, Michael J. “Religious Arguments in Public Political Debate.” Ch. 2 in Religion in Politics: Constitutional and Moral Perspectives, 43-61. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Rorty, Richard. “Religion in the Public Square: A Reconsideration.” Journal of Religious Ethics 31, no. 1 (2003): 141-49.

Sachedina, Abdulaziz Abdulhussein. “The Search for Democratic Pluralism in Islam.” Ch. 1 in The Islamic Roots of Democratic Pluralism, 3-21. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Spencer, Nick. “Doing God”: A Future for Faith in the Public Square. London: Theos, 2006.

Stout, Jeffrey. “Religious Reasons in Political Argument.” Ch. 3 in Democracy and Tradition, 63-91. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.

Stout, Jeffrey. “The Folly of Secularism.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 76, no. 3 (2008): 533-44.

Volf, Miroslav. “A Voice of One’s Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World.” In Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism, edited by Thomas F. Banchoff, 271-81. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. “An Engagement with Rorty.” Journal of Religious Ethics 31, no. 1 (2003): 129-39.

Wolterstorff, Nicholas. “The Role of Religion in Decision and Discussion of Political Issues.” In Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate, 67-119. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997.