Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bradley, Gerard V.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Almost everyone today affirms the importance and merit of religious liberty. But religious liberty is being challenged by new questions (for example, use of the niqab or church adoption services for same-sex couples) and new forces (such as globalization and Islamism). Combined, these make the meaning of religious liberty in the twenty-first century uncertain. This collection of essays by ten of the world's leading scholars on religious liberty takes aim at these issues. The book is arranged around five specific challenges to religious liberty today: the state's responsibility to prevent coercion and intimidation of believers by others within the same faith community; the US's basic moral responsibilities to promote religious liberty abroad; how to understand and apply the traditional right of conscientious objection in today's circumstances; the distinctive problems presented by globalization; and the viability today of an 'originalist' interpretation of the First Amendment religion clauses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139334303
• Artikelnr.: 52963159

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. The establishment clause and the 'problem of the church' Steven D. Smith; 2. Dueling Clios: Stevens and Scalia on the original meaning of the establishment clause Gerard V. Bradley; Part II: 3. Coercian and religious exercises Kent Greenawalt; 4. Religious freedom and (and in) institutions Richard W. Garnett; Part III: 5. Free exercise, religious conscience, and the common good Christopher Wolfe; 6. Conscience, religion, and the state Christopher Tollefsen; Part IV: 7. Globalization and the free exercise of religion worldwide José Casanova; 8. The irony of a globalizing future: economics, technology, identity, and religious liberty William Inboden; Part V: 9. A foreign policy of religious freedom: theoretical and evidentiary foundation Daniel Philpott; 10. International religious freedom and moral responsibility Thomas Farr.

Rezensionen

"This is a remarkable set of essays, deftly designed: each essay does deliver something distinctive; each one offers a clear account of the field, or that part of the problem that it is marking off for a concentrated inquiry. Each one delivers news-it alerts even the professional reader to things he might not have known, articles or books he might not have seen, and connections that might not have struck him while he was awaiting epiphanies on his own. And each one, in its own way, has some sober, sound judgments to register on different parts of the problem of religion, the law and politics. Gerard Bradley has assembled an all-star ensemble of writers and teachers, older and younger, all bringing the experience of reflection matured over many years on the vexing issues of revelation and reason, religion and the law." - Hadley Arkes, Amherst College