![]() Within this conflict of “faiths,” a particular construction of market relations-which we might loosely label neoliberalism-has made a claim to be the de facto object of devotion around which all other faiths are to be centered. ![]() Consequently, given such loyalties, within historically constructed and irreducibly plural polities, conflicts inevitably arise as groups and individuals negotiate their different loyalties and contest which are to be prioritized. ![]() Whether it is for oneself, one’s friends and family, the market, the nation-state, or a cosmopolitan ideal being progressively worked out in history, we all seek something or someone to be faithful to and invest value in. Folded within this question is the question of what kinds of common life enable the reality of and respect for people having multiple and often conflicting loyalties. The question of how to conceptualize secularity and the positive or negative role of democratic politics in fostering convivial relations between those of different faiths or no faith is central to the book. Situating my own response as an interaction between the two sets of reviews will hopefully clarify and help develop some of the book’s central arguments and positions. In responding to their critiques I will put them in dialogue with the reviews by Andrew Forsyth and Richard Wood, who I read as more directly articulating and speaking to the core foci and concerns of Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life. It is always instructive to see one’s work through the eyes of others, even if one does not always immediately recognize what one then sees! While finding valuable insights and many points for further reflection in all them, this is something of my reaction to Michael Gillespie’s and Jane Wills’s reviews. ![]() I am enormously grateful for the gift of time and attention their reviews represent. ![]() Let me begin by thanking the contributors to this book forum for their respective reviews. ![]()
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