TY - BOOK ID - 50777756 TI - Challenges to religious liberty in the twenty-first century PY - 2012 SN - 9781107012448 1107229197 1280394056 9786613571977 1139337726 1139340174 1139341758 1139336851 1139338595 0511998236 1139334301 9781139336857 1107012449 9780511998232 9781107454446 1107454441 9781139334303 9781107229198 9781280394058 6613571970 9781139337724 9781139340175 9781139341752 9781139338592 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Freedom of religion. KW - LiberteĢ religieuse KW - Church and state. KW - Freedom of religion KW - Freedom of worship KW - Intolerance KW - Liberty of religion KW - Religious freedom KW - Religious liberty KW - Separation of church and state KW - Freedom of expression KW - Liberty KW - Christianity and state KW - State and church KW - State, The KW - Law and legislation KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50777756 AB - 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. ER -