Religious Liberty and the Law (eBook, ePUB)

Theistic and Non-Theistic Perspectives
Redaktion: Menuge, Angus J. L.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an analysis of the general concept of religious liberty with a close study of important cases that serve as a test bed for proposals. It combines the insights of both pure academics and experienced practitioners in law to take a fresh look at the nature, scope and limits of religious liberty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351982665
• Artikelnr.: 48837151

Autorenporträt

Angus J. L. Menuge is Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Concordia University, Wisconsin, USA. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. He has published widely on these and related issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I The Nature of Religious Liberty
1. The Biblical Worldview Context for Religious Liberty - Paul Copan
2. Thomas Jefferson and the Pursuit of Happiness: Rethinking what the Right
means for us today - Laura Kittel
3. How to make room for God-In Man: Tracing Epictetus' totality of
religious freedom - Hendrik Kaptein
4. The Right to Religious Freedom: A Judicial Approach - Dallas K. Miller
II The Scope and Limits of Religious Liberty
5. The Secular State's Interest in Religious Liberty - Angus J. L. Menuge
6. Developments in Law and Secularism in Canada - Mary Anne Waldron, James
K.A. Smith, Ray Pennings and Christian Vandergeest
7. The Challenging Parallelism of Rights Claims Based on Religious Identity
and Sexual Identity - Dwight Newman
8. Religious Rights of Parents and Students in US K-12 Public Education -
John H. Calvert
9. Over the Secular Ridge of Human Wants: The constitutional legitimacy of
secular-state funding of chaplaincy programmes in Australia - Vito Breda
10. Modern Hostage-Taking: A Serious Problem for Religious Liberty Today -
Paul Cliteur
11. Religious nonfreedoms traditions and the lack of universal education in
the Indian social system: A WV3 case study of Jotirao Phule - Thom Wolf
12. Religious liberty in Brazil: piecing the puzzle through contemporary
decisions - Katya Kozicki and William Pugliese
Index