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date: 11 December 2019

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This article examines the religion between civil society and religion. It explains that religion plays an important though complicated role in a healthy civil society ecosystem by providing a location for moral debate and the articulation of competing social visions about what is good, right, and compassionate. It suggests that religious institutions also bring many assets to civil society because they have physical space, leadership, volunteers, and material resources and they are able to mobilize people around important social policy issues.

Keywords: civil society, religion, moral debate, social visions, religious institutions, social policy issues

Donald E. Miller

Donald E. Miller is Professor of Religion and Director of the Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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