Jr. John Witte

Blessings of Liberty (eBook, ePUB)

Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Leading legal scholar John Witte, Jr. explores the role religion played in the development of rights in the Western legal tradition and traces the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern domestic and international law. He examines how US courts are moving towards greater religious freedom, while recent decisions of the pan-European courts in Strasbourg and Luxembourg have harmed new religious minorities and threatened old religious traditions in Europe. Witte argues that the robust promotion and protection of religious freedom is the best way to protect many other fundamental rights today, even though religious freedom and other fundamental rights sometimes clash and need judicious balancing. He also responds to various modern critics who see human rights as a betrayal of Christianity and religious freedom as a betrayal of human rights.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108678650
• Artikelnr.: 66180554

Autorenporträt

John Witte, Jr. is Woodruff University Professor, McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. A world-class scholar of legal history, human rights, and law and religion, he has published 300 articles and forty books. Recent works include The Western Case for the Monogamy Over Polygamy (Cambridge, 2015), Christianity and Family Law (Cambridge, 2017), and Church, State, and Family (Cambridge, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Christian contributions to
the development of rights and liberties in the Western legal tradition; 2.
Magna Cartas old and new: rights and liberties in the Anglo-American common
law; 3. Natural law and natural rights in the early Protestant tradition;
4. 'A most mild and equitable establishment of religion': religious freedom
in Massachusetts, 1780-1833; 5. Historical foundations and enduring
fundamentals of American religious freedom; 6. Balancing the guarantees of
no establishment and free exercise of religion in American education; 7.
Tax exemption of religious property: historical anomaly or valid
constitutional practice? 8. Faith in Strasbourg? Religious freedom in the
European Court of Human Rights; 9. Meet the new boss of religious freedom:
the new cases of the Court of Justice of the European Union; Concluding
reflections: toward a Christian defense of human rights and religious
freedom today; Index.