Transforming Religious Liberties

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

AvS. I. Strong

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Religious liberties are at the centre of many debates on how liberal democratic societies can accommodate diversity. This book considers the interaction between law and religion from a broad international, comparative and jurisprudential perspective and proposes a new theoretical approach to religious liberty that both transcends and transforms current approaches to religious rights. Not only does the discussion draw on the work of a range of legal and political philosophers including John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis, it also tests the validity of the various proposals against actual 'hard cases' derived from multiple jurisdictions. In so doing, the analysis overcomes longstanding challenges to existing religious rights regimes and identifies a new theoretical paradigm that specifically addresses the challenges associated with religiously pluralist societies. Through this type of interdisciplinary analysis, the book identifies a religio-legal system that both religious and non-religious people can support.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-13
Mått:153 x 230 x 23 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:383
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781316631294

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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 Oxford, a Ph.D. from Cambridge and a J.D. from Duke, in addition to other degrees.

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'All in all, Strong's book is well worth reading. It presents a full vision of religious freedom from the perspective of a knowledgeable theorist, and it does so in a detailed, inclusive manner.' Nelson Tebbe, Reading Religion

Innehållsförteckning

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.