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Robert Audi, Is This God’s Country? Religion and Democracy in America, Oxford University Press, 2023, 168pp., $29.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780197682661.
Reviewed by Marilie Coetsee, Hope College
Reviewed by Marilie Coetsee, Hope College
Is This God’s Country? offers a wide-ranging exploration of important issues at the intersection of religion and democratic politics. Robert Audi’s publication record spans an impressive array of topics, including (among other things) business ethics, healthcare, and the ethics of citizenship, and his book reflects that diversity of thought. Part I reviews philosophical foundations of the separation of church and state, Part II discusses the concrete implications of what that separation does (or does not) entail in education, business, and healthcare, and Part III examines norms of democratic discourse, particularly as they pertain to religious advocacy. As a whole, Audi’s arguments support a liberal (rather than a conservative) approach to religion and politics, but he goes out of his way to try to show how such…
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