Challenges to religious liberty in the twenty-first century

Responsibility: edited by Gerard V. Bradley.
Imprint: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Physical description: xvii, 211 p. : ill ; 23 cm.

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Creators/Contributors

Contributor: Bradley, Gerard V., 1954-

Contents/Summary

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction
The establishment clause and the 'problem of the church' / Steven D. Smith
Dueling Clios : Stevens and Scalia on the original meaning of the establishment clause / Gerard V. Bradley
Coercion and religious exercises / Kent Greenawalt
Religious freedom and (and in) institutions / Richard W. Garnett
Free exercise, religious conscience, and the common good / Christopher Wolfe
Conscience, religion, and the state / Christopher Tollefsen
Globalization and the free exercise of religion worldwide / José Casanova
The irony of a globalizing future : economics, technology, identity, and religious liberty / William Inboden
A foreign policy of religious freedom : theoretical and evidentiary foundation / Daniel Philpott
International religious freedom and moral responsibility / Thomas Farr.

Publisher's summary

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.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

Subjects

Subjects: Freedom of religion.

Bibliographic information

Publication date: 2012
ISBN: 9781107012448 (hardback); 1107012449 (hardback)

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