TY  - BOOK
AU  - Braunstein,Ruth
TI  - Religion, Humility, and Democracy in a Divided America
T2  - Political Power and Social Theory Series
SN  - 9781789739510
AV  - HS1525-1560 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Bingley
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
KW  - Religion and politics-United States
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Front Cover -- Religion, Humility, and Democracy in a Divided America -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Contributors -- Guest Editor -- Contributors -- Beyond the Dogmatic Believer: Religious Conviction across the American Political Divide -- Religion and American Democratic Life - Three Snapshots -- Snapshot One: The 81 Percent and the Dogmatic Believer Narrative -- Snapshot Two: The Humble Believer (Complicating the Dogmatic Believer Narrative) -- Snapshot Three: The Righteous Prophet (Inverting the Dogmatic Believer Narrative) -- Juxtaposing the Three Snapshots -- Toward a Sociological Approach to the Relationship between Conviction, Humility, and Democracy -- A Growing Interdisciplinary Conversation -- A Sociological Approach -- Toward an Intellectually Humble Approach to Sociological Research and Practice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Religion as Source, Resource, Evaluation, and Hindrance: Intellectual Humility and the Relationship between Religion and Po... -- Introduction -- Politics and Religion -- Hindrances -- Resources -- Mediating Institutions -- Concepts -- Motivations and Cultural Tools -- Evaluations -- Sources -- Durkheim -- Neuhaus -- Dewey on Democracy, Emotion, and Faith -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Reflexive Evangelicalism -- Introduction -- Social Reflexivity and Intellectual Humility -- Religious Convictions Supporting Intellectual Humility -- A Case Study in Intellectual Humility and Religious Conviction: Buddhist-Evangelical Dialogue across Culture War Lines -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Intellectual Humility and Recognition of the Other: Evangelical Public Discourse with Muslims -- Introduction and Case -- Theory -- Intellectual Humility -- Situating Intellectual Humility amidst Struggles for Moral Authority; Data and Methods -- Negative Case -- Mapping Social Locations -- Survey Data -- Case Study: The Yale Response to A Common Word -- Social Location of Actors -- Survey Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Humility: Rooted in Relationship, Reaching for Justice -- Humility Is Rooted in Relationship -- Humility as Comforter -- Relationship as Transformative -- Humility's Pull toward Social Justice -- The Difficulty of Naming Injustice -- Humility and Justice in Civil Disagreements -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Passion and Virtue in Public Life: Focal Practices and the Political Holiness the World Needs -- The Passions in Public Life -- Focal Practices and the Passions: Transcendence, Submission, and Religion -- How Focal Practices Structure Human Experience: Conversion and Human Development -- Practices that Undergird Political Holiness and Conversion: Examples from Faith-based Community Organizing and Liberation T... -- Conclusion -- Beyond practices to institutions -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Ontic Webs: A New Framework for Public Sociology -- Beyond the Fact/Value Distinction -- From Sinks to Webs -- Between Normative and Descriptive -- Web 3.0: Rethinking Public Sociology -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
N2  - Strong religious convictions motivate citizens to engage in American public life, and are viewed as a source of closed-mindedness and a driver of political polarization. This book combines theoretical reflections on this tension, empirical studies examine how a range of religious actors balance conviction with humility in their political work
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