Religiosity and Public Reason: The Case of Direct Action Animal Rights Advocacy |
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Authors: | J Hadley |
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Institution: | 1.School of Humanities and Communication Arts,Western Sydney University,Sydney,Australia |
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Abstract: | Recent social science research indicates that animal rights philosophy plays the functional role of a religion in the lives of the most committed animal rights advocates. In this paper, I apply the functional religion thesis to the recent debate over the place of direct action animal rights advocacy in democratic theory. I outline the usefulness of the functional religion thesis and explain its implications for theorists that call for deliberative theories to be more inclusive of coercive forms of activism. |
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