Dynamic Integration of Ideological Perspectives

Four tasks remain to make the case that religious humanism can promote ideological collaboration. First is to identify elements of the four perspectives, namely, rational, romantic, deist, and mystical, that America’s ideologies – libertarianism, conservatism, and liberalism – use and by implication do not use. Those missing spaces are areas for potential expansion of America’s ideologies. Next, the objective is to show that ideologies have evolved to meet new changes and in some cases have drawn them together. Once done, the narrative turns to online platform dynamics discussed in earlier chapters to gain insights into the challenges ideologies face to remain major influences on public policy. Finally, the narrative shifts back to the mystical soulful ladder because the claim is that it is an important missing practice that can promote ideological collaboration.