S I Strong

Transforming Religious Liberties

A New Theory of Religious Rights for National and International Legal Systems

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Produktbeschreibung

Proposes a new theoretical approach to religious liberty that both transcends and transforms current approaches to law and religion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 383
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781316631294
• ISBN-10: 131663129X
• Artikelnr.: 54641679

Autorenporträt

S. I. Strong has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom as well as Georgetown Law Center and the University of Missouri in the United States. Professor Strong has written over 100 books and articles which have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian and Chinese, and has won numerous awards for scholarly writing, including Cambridge's esteemed Yorke Prize. Professor Strong is a former US Supreme Court Fellow and holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a J.D. from Duke University, North Carolina, in addition to other degrees.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Current approaches to religious rights
3. The religiously orientated original position: presumptions and framework
4. Purely self-regarding practices: religious acts with no effect on others or society
5. Complex self-regarding practices: religious acts with an effect on others or society
6. False other-regarding practices: religious directions to non-religious persons with no effect on others or society
7. True other-regarding practices: religious directions to non-religious persons with an effect on others or society
8. Conclusion.