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Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing anxiety between assimilation to the broader culture and defiant rejection of ethnical incursions. However, legal theorist and Catholic theologian Cathleen Kaveny contends there is a third probability - a culture of proposal - that accommodates and respects tradition. It also recognizes the need to interact with culture to remain relevant and offer critiques of public, politics, legal, and monetary practices. Focusing on five broad regions of interest - Legislation as a Instructor, Religious Liberty and its own Limits, Conversations about Culture, Conversations about Idea, and Circumstances and Controversies - Kaveny demonstrates how thoughtful and purposeful proposal can donate to rich, constructive, and difficult discussions between moral and ethnical customs. This provocative collection of Kaveny's articles from Commonweal magazine, substantially revised and updated off their primary publication, provides astonishing insight into a variety of hot-button issues like abortion, assisted suicide, government-sponsored torture, contraception, the Ashley Treatment, capital abuse, and the role of spiritual beliefs in a pluralistic modern culture. The book is released by Georgetown University Press. "Cathy Kaveny is, simultaneously, one of our country's most significant spiritual intellectuals and one of our most rigorous legal scholars. A Culture of Proposal is a superb introduction to her thought." (EJ Dionne Jr., Brookings Institute)
"That is a vibrant and brilliant proposal with the essential questions of beliefs, independence, and family." (John Witte, Jr., Director of the Center for the Study of Legislation and Faith, Emory University)
"This collection helps solidify Professor Kaveny's role as you of North american Catholicism's leading general public intellectuals." (David P. Gushee, Director of the Center for Theology and Community Life, Mercer University
