Religion and Biopolitics. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann, Ulrich Willems, editors.
• Editors: Weiberg-Salzmann, Mirjam; Willems, Ulrich
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Authors; Part I: Introduction; Chapter 1: Challenging the Political: Religious Actors and Religious Arguments in Liberal Democracies; 1 Introduction: Religion and the Formation of Public Policy; 2 The Institutional Separation of Religion and Politics; 2.1 Religious Arguments in Liberal Democracies; 3 The Development of the Biopolitical Debate; 3.1 Discursive Strategies of Religious Actors Within the Bio-political Debate; 4 Characteristics of Religious Arguments; 4.1 Epistemological Status and Empirical Operationalization; References Part II: Catholic-Latin States with Low Level or Little Religious PluralismChapter 2: Discursive Strategies of Catholic Churches in Assisted Reproduction Technology Regulation: Poland and Spain in Comp...; 1 Introduction; 2 Incompatible Views on ART Legislation; 3 Varying ART Legislation and Church-State Relations in Poland and Spain; 4 Discursive Strategies of Religious Actors; 4.1 Framing of the Problem; 4.2 Secular or Religious Language; 4.3 Secular or Religious Sources of Legitimation; 4.4 Modes of Intervention; 5 Bioethics and Discursive Strategies of the Vatican 5.1 Humanae Vitae (1968)5.2 Donum Vitae; 5.3 Evangelium Vitae (1995); 5.4 Dignitas Personae (2008); 5.5 Discursive Strategies of the Vatican; 6 ART Regulation and Catholic Discursive Strategies in Spain and Poland; 6.1 Spain (1980s-2013): Contesting Spainś First ART Regulation in the 1980s; 6.2 Mid 1990s-Mid 2000: In Defense of Adult Stem Cell Research; 6.3 2003: Conservative Government and Policy Change in Accordance with the Church; 6.4 Mobilizing the Faithful Under the New Left Government; 6.5 Political Arguments; 6.6 2006: Toward the Permissive Law 14/2006 6.7 2007: The Permissive Bioethics Law6.8 Poland (1990s-2015): The 1990s-The Catholic Fight Against Abortion; 6.9 2007: In Vitro on the Agenda: The Church in Opposition; 6.10 Since 2009: In Vitro Dividing the Center-Right; 6.11 Uncompromising Episcopate; 6.12 2015: Direct Church Intervention in the Context of ART Decision-Making; 7 Discursive Strategies in Comparison; 8 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3: The Role of Religion in Debates on Embryo Research and Surrogacy in France; 1 Introduction; 2 Embryo Research; 3 Surrogacy; 3.1 Elements of Discourse on the Subject 3.2 The ``Dangers of Marriage for All:́́ The Circular Reasoning of Surrogacy and the Abolition of the Sexes4 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4: Embryonic Silences: Human Life Between Biomedicine, Religion, and State Authorities in Austria; 1 Introduction; 2 Background: The Catholic Church in the Austrian Polity and Its History; 2.1 The Position of the Catholic Church in Austria; 2.2 The Position of the Catholic Church in the History of the Austrian Polity; 2.3 A Moment of Disruption: The Abortion Debates of the 1970s; 2.4 Resealing the Black Box of Unborn Human Life
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (358 pages)
• Subjects: 201/.72; Religion and politics; Religion and science; Religion and politics; Religion and science; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030145804; 3030145808
• Related ISBNs: 3030145794; 9783030145798
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 25, 2019).
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