On religion and cultural policy: notes on the Roman Catholic Church
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This paper argues that religious institutions have largely been neglected within the study of cultural policy. is attributed to inherently secular tendency most modern social sciences. Despite predominance ‘secularisation paradigm’, notes religion continues promote powerful attachments and denunciations. Arguments between ‘new atheists’, in particular, Richard Dawkins, their opponents are discussed, as Habermas’ conciliatory encounter with Joseph Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI). The then moves a consideration Roman Catholic Church an agent policy, whose overriding aim promotion ‘Christian consciousness’. Discussion focuses on contested meanings this, reference (1) deliberations Vatican II, (2) exercise theological authority by Congregation for Doctrine Faith. It argued these doctrinal disputes intersect notions policy warrant attention outside specialist realm discourse.
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