Public Vision, Private Lives: Rousseau, Religion, and 21st-Century Democracy (Paperback)

Preface
Acknowledgments
Religion, Democracy, and Modernity: The Case for Progressive Spiritual Democracy
Preparing for the Journey: An Introduction
1 From the Garden to the City: The Tragic Passage
1. Nature's Garden
2. Revisiting the Garden's Solitaires
3. From the Garden to the Blessed Country: The Precarious Passage
4. The Rush to Slavery
5. The City: Life in the Ousted Condition
6. Overcoming Moral Evil: Rousseau at the Crossroads
2 Paths to Redemption
7. Reforming the City: The Extreme Public Path
8. Evading the City: The Private Path
9. The Mountain Village: The Path to Family, Work, Community, and Love
10. Reconciling Citizen and Solitaire: Religious Dimensions of the Middle Way
11. Residual Conflict: Democracy and Ineluctable Friction
Conclusion
A Way Forward: Rousseau and Twenty-First-Century Democracy
Notes
Works Cited
Index