Religiosity and public reason : the case of direct action animal rights advocacy

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)299-312
Number of pages14
JournalRes Publica
Volume23
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

Keywords

  • animal rights
  • deliberative democracy
  • direct action
  • extremists
  • fundamentalism
  • religiousness

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