The Demand for Religious Equality
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Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1859 |
Genre | : Church and state |
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Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1859 |
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Author | : Roger Trigg |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
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Release | : 2012-01-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191613371 |
Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes second place in the law of different countries to the pursuit of other social priorities. The right to freedom of belief and to manifest belief is written into all human rights charters. In the United States religious freedom is sometimes seen as 'the first freedom'. Yet increasingly in many jurisdictions in Europe and North America, religious freedom can all too easily be 'trumped' by other rights. Roger Trigg looks at the assumptions that lie behind the subordination of religious liberty to other social concerns, especially the pursuit of equality. He gives examples from different Western countries of a steady erosion of freedom of religion. The protection of freedom of worship is often seen as sufficient, and religious practices are separated from the beliefs which inspire them. So far from religion in general, and Christianity in particular, providing a foundation for our beliefs in human dignity and human rights, religion is all too often seen as threat and a source of conflict, to be controlled at all costs. The challenge is whether any freedom can preserved for long, if the basic human right to freedom of religious belief and practice is dismissed as of little account, with no attempt to provide any reasonable accommodation. Given the central role of religion in human life, unnecessary limitations on its expression are attacks on human freedom itself.
Author | : Susanna Mancini |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316805395 |
In this work, Professors Rosenfeld and Mancini have brought together an impressive group of authors to provide a comprehensive analysis on the greater demand for religions exemptions to government mandates. Traditional religious conscientious objection cases, such as refusal to salute the flag or to serve in the military during war, had a diffused effect throughout society. In sharp contrast, these authors argue that today's most notorious objections impinge on the rights of others, targeting practices like abortion, LGTBQ adoption, and same-sex marriage. The dramatic expansion of conscientious objection claims have revolutionized the battle between religious traditionalists and secular civil libertarians, raising novel political, legal, constitutional and philosophical challenges. Highlighting the intersection between conscientious objections, religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities, this volume showcases this political debate and the principal jurisprudence from different parts of the world and emphasizes the little known international social movements that compete globally to alter the debate's terms.
Author | : James H. Hutson |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
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A balanced and lively look at the role of religion between colonization and the 1840s.
Author | : Mary V. Thompson |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0813927633 |
Mount Vernon researcher Mary Thompson endeavors to get beyond the current preoccupation with whether Washington and other founders were or were not evangelical Christians to ask what place religion had in their lives. Thompson follows Washington and his family over several generations, situating her inquiry in the context of new work on the place of religion in colonial and postrevolutionary Virginia and the Chesapeake. --from publisher description.
Author | : Martha Craven Nussbaum |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2008-02-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0465051642 |
An analysis of America's commitment to religious liberty uses political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases to discuss its basis in six principles: equality, respect for conscience, liberty, accommodation of minorities, nonestablishment, and separation of church and state.
Author | : Thomas Jefferson |
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Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1774 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
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Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Affirmative action programs |
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Author | : Noel B. Reynolds |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802848536 |
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. In this volume, several leading scholars harvest the best of Western thinking on religious liberty. An opening chapter shows how religious liberty emerged slowly in the West through centuries of cruel experience and growing enlightenment. Separate chapters thereafter take up the unique role of such titans as Marsilius, Luther, Calvin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Tocqueville, and the American framers in the Western drama of religious liberty. From widely divergent experiences, these titans discovered the cardinal principles of religious liberty -- religious pluralism and toleration, religious equality and non- discrimination, liberty of conscience and association, freedom of expression and exercise. From widely discordant convictions, they distilled the most enduring models of church and state and of religion and law in the West -- from the organic models of earlier centuries to the dualistic models of more recent times. Contributors: Brian Tierney Steven Ozment John Witte Jr. Joshua Mitchell W. Cole Durham Jr. Michael W. McConnell Ellis Sandoz Thomas L. Pangle
Author | : Brian Leiter |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-08-24 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 140085234X |
Why it's wrong to single out religious liberty for special legal protections This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory—why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of toleration to grant exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare.