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Author | : Arvind Sharma |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2011-08-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9048189934 |
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The concept of religious freedom is the favoured modern human rights concept, with which the modern world hopes to tackle the phenomenon of religious pluralism, as our modern existence in an electronically shrinking globe comes to be increasingly characterised by this phenomenon. To begin with, the concept of religious freedom, as embodied in Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, seems self-evident in nature. It is the claim of this book, however, that although emblematic on the one hand, the concept is also problematic on the other, and the implications of the concept of religious freedom are far from self-evident, despite the ready acceptance the term receives as embodying a worthwhile goal. This book therefore problematizes the concept along legal, constitutional, ethical and theological lines, and especially from the perspective of religious studies, so that religious freedom in the world could be enlarged in a way which promotes human flourishing.
Author | : John Courtney Murray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Freedom of religion |
ISBN | : |
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"Appeared originally in Theological studies, 25, 1964." Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 111-112).
Author | : John Courtney Murray (s.j.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 113 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Christopher L. Eisgruber |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2010-04-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 067426326X |
Download Religious Freedom and the Constitution Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Religion has become a charged token in a politics of division. In disputes about faith-based social services, public money for religious schools, the Pledge of Allegiance, Ten Commandments monuments, the theory of evolution, and many other topics, angry contestation threatens to displace America's historic commitment to religious freedom. Part of the problem, the authors argue, is that constitutional analysis of religious freedom has been hobbled by the idea of "a wall of separation" between church and state. That metaphor has been understood to demand that religion be treated far better than other concerns in some contexts, and far worse in others. Sometimes it seems to insist on both contrary forms of treatment simultaneously. Missing has been concern for the fair and equal treatment of religion. In response, the authors offer an understanding of religious freedom called Equal Liberty. Equal Liberty is guided by two principles. First, no one within the reach of the Constitution ought to be devalued on account of the spiritual foundation of their commitments. Second, all persons should enjoy broad rights of free speech, personal autonomy, associative freedom, and private property. Together, these principles are generous and fair to a wide range of religious beliefs and practices. With Equal Liberty as their guide, the authors offer practical, moderate, and appealing terms for the settlement of many hot-button issues that have plunged religious freedom into controversy. Their book calls Americans back to the project of finding fair terms of cooperation for a religiously diverse people, and it offers a valuable set of tools for working toward that end.
Author | : Robert J. Joustra |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2017-08-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1317216148 |
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Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious freedom in North America. This book explores how debates over the American Office of Religious Freedom and its International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA, 1998) and very recent debates over the Canadian Office of Religious Freedom (2013) have pitted at least six basic, but very different meanings of the religious and the secular against each other in often undisclosed and usually unproductive ways. Properly naming this ‘religious problem’ is a critical first step to acknowledging and conciliating their practically polar political prescriptions. It must be considered how we are to think about religion in political offices, both the Canadian and the American experience, as an essentially contested term, and one which demands better than postmodern paralysis, what the author terms political theology. This is especially critical since both of these cases are not just about how to deal with religion at home, but how to engage with religion abroad, where real peril, and real practical policy must be undertaken to protect increasingly besieged religious minorities. Finally, a principled pluralist approach to the religious and the secular suggests a way to think outside the ‘religious problem’ and productively enlist and engage the forces of religion resurging around the globe. The book will be of great use to scholars and students in religion and foreign affairs, secularization, political theology, and political theory, as well as professionals and policy makers working in issues relating to religion, religious freedom, and foreign affairs.
Author | : John Courtney Murray (S.I.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 112 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Earle Owen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Freedom of religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Marc O. DeGirolami |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-06-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0674074114 |
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Legal scholars expect to resolve religious dilemmas according to principles of equality, neutrality, or separation of church and state. But such abstractions fail to do justice to the clashing values in today’s pluralistic society. Marc DeGirolami explains why conflicts implicating religious liberty are so emotionally fraught and deeply contested.
Author | : Steven D Smith |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2001-09-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0814739946 |
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Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. But there is also a sense that the prevailing discourse is exhausted, that no one seems to know how to think about religious freedom in a way that moves beyond our stale, counterproductive thinking on this issue. In Getting over Equality, Steven D. Smith, one of the most important voices now writing about religious liberty, provocatively contends that we must get over our presumption mistakenly believed to be rooted in the Constitution that all religions are equally true and virtuous and "authentically American." Smith puts forth an alternative view, that the courts should promote an ideal of tolerance rather than equality and neutrality. Examining such controversial examples as the animal sacrifice case, the peyote case, and the problem of aid to parochial schools, Smith delineates a way for us to tolerate and respect contrary creeds without sacrificing or diluting our own beliefs and without pretending to believe in a spurious "equality" among the variety of diverse faiths.
Author | : Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan |
Publisher | : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9004504966 |
Download Freedom of Religion and Religious Pluralism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This book brings together a variety of religious and non-religious perspectives on religious pluralism. It explores the key philosophical and legal issues associated with religious freedom and social harmony"--