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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paul Horwitz (Gordon Rosen Professor of Law, Gordon Rosen Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.675kg ISBN: 9780199737727ISBN 10: 019973772 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 17 February 2011 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT: THE COLLAPSE OF THE LIBERAL CONSENSUS IN LAW AND SOCIETY Chapter One: Religion Under Attack/Liberalism Under Attack Chapter Two: Pilate's Shrug: The Sad Saga of Modern Law and Religion Theory PART TWO: GETTING TO MAYBE: THE AGNOSTIC TURN Chapter Three: Empathetic Agnosticism Chapter Four: The New Commissars of Enlightenment: Of the New Atheists, the Anti-New Atheists, and Agnosticism Chapter Five: Constitutional Agnosticism PART THREE: PUTTING CONSTITUTIONAL AGNOSTICISM TO WORK Chapter Six: Constitutional Agnosticism and Free Exercise of Religion Chapter Seven: Constitutional Agnosticism and the Establishment Clause: One Nation Under ? PART FOUR: CONSTITUTIONAL AGNOSTICISM, RELIGION, AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY Chapter Eight: Easing the Tension . . . But Not Ending ItReviewsThe Agnostic Age is an accessible and timely book for readers interested in the connections between pluralism, religion, and liberal democracy. Harvard Law Review. This book is ambitious in its scope as well as in its aims. Adam Carrington, Journal of Church and State An accessible and timely book for readers interested in the connections between pluralism, religion, and liberal democracy. Harvard Law Review An accessible and timely book for readers interested in the connections between pluralism, religion, and liberal democracy. * Harvard Law Review * This book is ambitious in its scope as well as in its aims. * Adam Carrington, Journal of Church and State * The Agnostic Age is an accessible and timely book for readers interested in the connections between pluralism, religion, and liberal democracy. * Harvard Law Review. * <br> This is a powerful, learned, eloquent and wonderfully accessible account of the multi-layered and intractable tensions between religion's commitment to doctrinal truths and the liberal state's commitment to a non theistic--which does not necessarily mean anti-theistic--political order. Professor Horwitz takes the reader on a tour of the scholarship and the issues as he makes his way through the minefield of the establishment and free exercise clauses with ease, good humor, and an infectious spirit of optimism. <br>--Stanley Fish <br>Davidson-Kahn Professor of Law and Humanities at Florida International University <br><p><br> Taking truth (and therefore doubt) seriously-that's the central theme of this engaging book. In the midst of religious pluralism, a few scholars say our law of religious freedom must be based on what we believe to be true; more often, judges and scholars insist that our law must be detached from or 'neutral' toward religious truth. Professor Horwitz analyzes This is a powerful, learned, eloquent and wonderfully accessible account of the multi-layered and intractable tensions between religion's commitment to doctrinal truths and the liberal state's commitment to a non theistic--which does not necessarily mean anti-theistic--political order. Professor Horwitz takes the reader on a tour of the scholarship and the issues as he makes his way through the minefield of the establishment and free exercise clauses with ease, good humor, and an infectious spirit of optimism. --Stanley Fish Davidson-Kahn Professor of Law and Humanities at Florida International University Taking truth (and therefore doubt) seriously-that's the central theme of this engaging book. In the midst of religious pluralism, a few scholars say our law of religious freedom must be based on what we believe to be true; more often, judges and scholars insist that our law must be detached from or 'neutral' toward religious truth. Professor Horwitz analyzes the problems with both positions. He proposes an alternative strategy which recognizes that we must act on what we believe to be true but that all our truths are profoundly contestable--and contested. This is a lively, insightful, and provocative book. --Steven D. Smith, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego The confident predictions of religion's decline and disappearance have proved badly misguided. It is true today, as it always has been, that religious faith, commitments, authority, and activism matter to people, to communities, and therefore to the law. In this thoughtful, engaging book, Prof. Horwitz proposes that our law and politics should appreciate religion's importance and distinctiveness and take its truth-claims seriously. As he explains, a secular government that is appropriately agnostic toward these claims nevertheless may and should cherish and protect religious freedom. --Richard W. Garnett Professor of Law and Associate Dean Notre Dame Law School Drawing on a combination of legal, cultural, and literary scholarship...The Agnostic Age is an accessible and timely book for readers interested in the connections between pluralism, religion, and liberal democracy. --Harvard Law Review Author InformationPaul Horwitz is the Gordon Rosen Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He has taught at the University of Iowa, Notre Dame Law School, and the University of San Diego, among other places, and has spoken at some of the nation's leading law schools. He is widely published in the field of constitutional law and the First Amendment, and he has written extensively on law and religion. He is also a blogger at the popular legal blog Prawfsblawg. He is a lawyer in both Canada and the United States, a former editor-in-chief of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review, and a former law clerk for a federal appeals judge. 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