Part I. Public reason liberalism
ch. 1. The paradoxical role of coercion in the theory of political liberalism
ch. 2. An engagement with Rorty
ch. 3. The justificatory liberalism of Gerald Gaus
ch. 4. What are the prospects for public reason liberalism?
Part II. Re-thinking liberal democracy
ch. 5. Liberal democracy as equal political voice
ch. 6. Exercising one's political voice as a moral engagement
Part III. Perspectives on rights
ch. 7. On secular and Theistic groundings of human rights
ch. 8. Grounding the rights we have as human persons
ch. 9. The right of the people to a democratic state : reflections on a passage in Althusius
ch. 10. Accounting for the political authority of the state
Part IV. Liberal democracy and religion
ch. 11. Why can't we all just get a long with each other?
ch. 12. Freedom for religion
ch. 13. Do Christians have good reasons for supporting liberal democracy?
ch. 14. A religious argument for the civil right to freedom of religious exercise, drawn form American history
ch. 15. Habermas on religion and postmetaphysical philosophy in political discourse.
