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Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Europe’s religious parties and the liberal consensus

Political theory, social science, and the liberal consensus

Public religion and religious integrationism

Europe’s religious integrationists and religious political parties

Party histories

Belgium

The Netherlands

Austria

Germany

Conclusion

2 The argument for deliberative restraint

The moral and historical sources of the argument for deliberative restraint

A prologue to the rest of the argument

3 The problem with secular reasons

Audi’s secular principles

Habermas and secularization

4 Public reason and religious conflict

Rawls and the argument for public reason

The religious conflict thesis and Europe’s other religio-political conflict

Considering political legitimacy again: a more restrained deliberative restraint

5 Religion and the problem of political autonomy

Liberalism and the virtues

Religious integrationism and personal autonomy

Religious integrationism and political autonomy

Integrationism and the formation of a religious political identity

Conclusion

6 Making the most of conflict: religion and political toleration

What do we mean by tolerance?

Political toleration and the argument for substantive neutrality

Conflict, substantive neutrality, and religious integrationism

Conclusion

Conclusion: toward a better sort of liberal democracy

Whither liberalism?

Two tentative applications

Bibliography

Index