The Foundations of Democracy and the Separation of Church and State -- The Plurality of Paths to Liberal Democracy -- Liberal Democracy -- Outlines of a Case for Liberal Democracy -- Freedom and Coercion -- The Separation of Church and State -- Three Central Principles of Church-State Separation -- Church-State Separation Viewed from a Religious Standpoint -- Applications of Church-State Separation: Public Observances, Educational Policy, and Tax Exemption -- Church-State Separation and the Justification of Governmental Power -- Liberal Democracy and Conceptions of the Good -- A Surrogacy Conception of Justified Coercion -- The Positive Role of Religious Arguments in a Liberal Democracy -- The Ethics of Citizenship and the Balance of Religious and Political Arguments -- Religious Convictions and Secular Reasons -- Religion, Politics, and the Ethics of Citizenship -- Two Principles of Democratic Citizenship -- Some Problems of Application -- The Ethics of Citizenship and the Accommodation of Religion -- Religion and Ethics: Toward Integration -- The Diverse Sources of Religious Obligation -- Religious Commitment and Political Participation -- The Principle of Theo-ethical Equilibrium -- Theology and the Autonomy of Ethics -- Civic Virtue and Political Activism in a Religiously Pluralistic Democracy -- Civic Virtue -- Virtues as Normatively Structured Elements of Character -- The Grounds of Civic Virtue -- Civic Virtue and the Grounds for Sociopolitical Action -- Civic Virtue and the Balancing of Religious and Secular Reasons.