Religion, Culture, and International Conflict: A Conversation
Author(s): Michael Cromartie (Editor, Contributor), David Bloom (Contributor), David Brooks (Contributor), Peter Brown (Contributor), Carl M. Cannon (Contributor), Colleen Carroll (Contributor), John Cochran (Contributor), Patricia Cohen (Contributor), Alan Cooperman (Contributor), E. J. Dionne Jr. (Contributor), Nina Easton (Contributor), Jane J. Eisner (Contributor), Franklin Foer (Contributor), Hillel Fradkin (Contributor), David Frum (Contributor), John H. Fund (Contributor), William A. Galston (Contributor), Jeffrey Goldberg (Contributor), Barbara Bradley Hagerty (Contributor), Christopher Hitchens (Contributor), Bruce Hoffman (Contributor), Samuel P. Huntington (Contributor), Philip Jenkins (Contributor), James Turner Johnson (Contributor), John B. Judis (Contributor), Wendy Kaminer (Contributor), Gilles Kepel (Contributor), John Leo (Contributor), Ruth Marcus (Contributor), Jane Mayer (Contributor), Duncan Moon (Contributor), Dan Morgan (Contributor), Roy Mottahedeh (Contributor), Caryle Murphy (Contributor), Paul Richter (Contributor), Jeffery L. Sheler (Contributor), David Shribman (Contributor), Judith Shulevitz (Contributor), Peter Steinfels (Contributor), Jay Tolson (Contributor), Karen Tumulty (Contributor), David Van Biema (Contributor), George Wiegel (Contributor), Paul West (Contributor), Kenneth L. Woodward (Contributor)
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publication Date: 28 Mar. 2005
Language: English
Print length: 192 pages
ISBN-10: 0742544729
ISBN-13: 9780742544727
Book Description
As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists’ ignorance about theological convictions has often worked to distort the public discourse on important policy issues. Pope John Paul II’s pronouncements on stem-cell research, the constitutional controversies regarding faith-based initiatives, the emerging participation of Muslims in American life-issues like these require political journalists in print and broadcast media to cover religious contexts that many admit they are ill-equipped to understand. Put differently, these news events reflect subtle theological nuances and deep faith commitments that shape the activities of religious believers in the public square. Inasmuch as a faith tradition is an active or significant participant in the public arena, journalists will need to better understand the theological sources and religious convictions that motivate this political activity. The current national discourse has brought faith and its relationship to public policy to the forefront of our daily news. Since 1999, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, through the generosity of the Pew Charitable Trusts, has hosted six conferences for national journalists to help raise the level of their reporting by increasing their understanding of religion, religious communities, and the religious convictions that inform the political activity of devout believers. This book contains the presentations and conversations that grew out of those conferences.
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About the Author
William A. Galston holds the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. He was previously the Saul Stern Professor and Acting Dean at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. He served from 1993 to 1995 as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. Galston is the author of five books and nearly one hundred articles in moral and political theory, American politics, and public policy. He has a regular column in the Wall Street Journal.
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