"This volume offers theoretical, historical, and jurisprudential perspectives on religious freedom, while examining what it may entail as an experience, a value, and a right. We start from the premise that the terrain of religious freedom never has been easy or smooth. Across societies, defending or contesting principles of religious freedom has required compromise, balancing, and wrangling with the law. On rocky ground-to continue the environmental metaphor-people have had to push through or maneuver around obstacles, or struggle to keep their footing. Drawing examples from the United States…mehr
"This volume offers theoretical, historical, and jurisprudential perspectives on religious freedom, while examining what it may entail as an experience, a value, and a right. We start from the premise that the terrain of religious freedom never has been easy or smooth. Across societies, defending or contesting principles of religious freedom has required compromise, balancing, and wrangling with the law. On rocky ground-to continue the environmental metaphor-people have had to push through or maneuver around obstacles, or struggle to keep their footing. Drawing examples from the United States and the world, the essays in this collection illustrate these challenges. They sketch the contours of current debates while showing how the landscape has shifted"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Edited by Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The Landscape of Religious Freedom Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green Part I. Ethical Arguments Chapter 1. A Right of Its Own: A Case for the Human Right of Religious Freedom Daniel Philpott Chapter 2. Can Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Be Universal? Heiner Bielefeldt Part II. The Social Contingency of Religious Freedom Disputes Chapter 3. Microclimates of Religious Freedom: Global Norms Meet Local Conditions in Territorial Hawai'i and Occupied Japan Jolyon Baraka Thomas Chapter 4. The Protection of Religion as "Culture" and "History": Three Case Studies Lori G. Beaman Chapter 5. "Baptism of Ire": Atheist Plaintiffs and Irreligious Freedom in Postwar America Leigh E. Schmidt Chapter 6. The Heads or Tails of Cow Protection in India: Religious Freedom and Secular Agriculture Cassie Adcock Chapter 7. Bad Faith: Religious Fraud and Religious Freedom in the "Mighty I AM" Case William Schultz Part III. The (Mis)application of Religious Freedom Chapter 8. The Historian's Pickaxe: Uncovering the Racist Origins of the Religious Right Randall Balmer Chapter 9. Female Genital Cutting in Michigan: How Advocates of the Dawoodi Bohra Distorted Religious Freedom to Control Women's Sexual Conduct Kristina Arriaga Chapter 10. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Future of Religious Freedom in the United States Joshua Matz Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Landscape of Religious Freedom Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green Part I. Ethical Arguments Chapter 1. A Right of Its Own: A Case for the Human Right of Religious Freedom Daniel Philpott Chapter 2. Can Freedom of Religion or Belief (FoRB) Be Universal? Heiner Bielefeldt Part II. The Social Contingency of Religious Freedom Disputes Chapter 3. Microclimates of Religious Freedom: Global Norms Meet Local Conditions in Territorial Hawai'i and Occupied Japan Jolyon Baraka Thomas Chapter 4. The Protection of Religion as "Culture" and "History": Three Case Studies Lori G. Beaman Chapter 5. "Baptism of Ire": Atheist Plaintiffs and Irreligious Freedom in Postwar America Leigh E. Schmidt Chapter 6. The Heads or Tails of Cow Protection in India: Religious Freedom and Secular Agriculture Cassie Adcock Chapter 7. Bad Faith: Religious Fraud and Religious Freedom in the "Mighty I AM" Case William Schultz Part III. The (Mis)application of Religious Freedom Chapter 8. The Historian's Pickaxe: Uncovering the Racist Origins of the Religious Right Randall Balmer Chapter 9. Female Genital Cutting in Michigan: How Advocates of the Dawoodi Bohra Distorted Religious Freedom to Control Women's Sexual Conduct Kristina Arriaga Chapter 10. The U.S. Supreme Court and the Future of Religious Freedom in the United States Joshua Matz Notes List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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