Religion and Politics: Educating for Engagement

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Mattson, Kristin
Reed-Bouley, Jennifer

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2017

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14

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Daily headlines confirm that when religion and politics interact, the results can be explosive. Most Catholic universities, however, count religious inquiry and political responsibility among their overall learning goals. In this paper, we explore how Catholic social teaching (CST) can inform political dialogue in ways that unite rather than divide. Specifically, we focus on the background for a collaborative project at a Catholic university to teach students to apply CST to the political dimensions of environmental sustainability. Catholic social teaching can serve three functions that are useful to Catholic universities in preparing graduates for full citizenship: 1) complicating students’ habits of moral reasoning, thereby providing the condition for the possibility of moral reasoning about politics; 2) incorporating social analysis to provide a basis for non-polemic analysis of political issues; and 3) providing religious motivation and justification for active involvement in politics. |Keywords: civic education, Catholic social teaching

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Mattson, K., & Reed-Bouley, J. (2017). Religion and Politics: Educating for Engagement. Supplement Series for the Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series, 14, 181-199.

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Rabbi Myer and Dorothy Kripke Center, Creighton University

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http://hdl.handle.net/10504/109267

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https://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/toc/SS14.html

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