Part I. The Foundations of Democracy and the Separation of Church and State: 1. The plurality of paths to Liberal democracy

2. The separation of church and State

3. Church-State separation and the justification of Governmental power

Part II. The Ethics of Citizenship and the Balance of Religious and Political Arguments: 4. Religious convictions and secular reasons

5. Religion and ethics: toward integration

Part III. Civic Virtue and Political Activism in a Religiously Pluralistic Democracy: 6. Civic virtue

7. Religious conviction and political activism

8. Conclusion: ethics, reason, and democracy.