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Challenges to religious liberty in the twenty-first century
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ISBN: 9781107012448 1107229197 1280394056 9786613571977 1139337726 1139340174 1139341758 1139336851 1139338595 0511998236 1139334301 9781139336857 1107012449 9780511998232 9781107454446 1107454441 9781139334303 9781107229198 9781280394058 6613571970 9781139337724 9781139340175 9781139341752 9781139338592 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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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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Problematizing religious freedom.
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ISBN: 9789048189939 9789400736986 9789400736986 Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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The central claim of this book is that although the concept of religious freedom as a human rights concept is emblematic on the one hand, the concept is also problematic on the other, so that its implications are far from self-evident despite the ready acceptance the term receives as embodying a worthwhile goal. This book therefore problematizes the concept along legal, constitutional, ethical, and theological lines, and especially from the perspective of religious studies, so that religious freedom in the world could be enlarged in a way which promotes human flourishing.--


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Relion, nation, citoyenneté en Grèce : l'Église orthodoxe et le conflit des cartes d'identité.
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ISBN: 9782296992597 2296992595 Year: 2012 Publisher: Paris L'Harmattan


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Toleranz und Religionsfreiheit 311-2011 : internationales Symposium an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, 14.-15. April 2011
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ISBN: 9783487148083 Year: 2012 Volume: 144 Publisher: Hildesheim ; Zürich ; New York Georg Olms Verlag


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The New Religious Intolerance.Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
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ISBN: 9780674065901 0674065905 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts / London the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press


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A secular Europe : law and religion in the European constitutional landscape.
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ISBN: 9780199592784 0199592780 Year: 2012 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press


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La hiérarchie des droits : convictions religieuses et droits fondamentaux au Canada
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ISSN: 20310331 ISBN: 9052017778 9789052017778 3035261547 1299437427 Year: 2012 Volume: 12 Publisher: Bruxelles : P.I.E. Peter Lang,

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"Depuis la Déclaration de Vienne, adoptée en 1993, le principe de l'égalité hiérarchique entre les différents droits et libertés fondamentaux n'a jamais été remis en cause de manière significative au sein de la communauté internationale : tous les droits auraient la même valeur juridique et aucun de ceux-là ne pourrait primer sur les autres en cas de conflit. Le présent livre s'attaque à l'effectivité du postulat de non-domination des droits et des valeurs en étudiant les portées, très différentes, qui furent conférées, au Canada, à deux ensembles de droits et libertés fondamentaux. Car l'étude de la jurisprudence canadienne confirme en effet l'existence d'une hiérarchie juridique matérielle favorisant les dispositions protégeant les convictions religieuses individuelles au sein de l'ensemble des droits fondamentaux. La thèse à l'origine de cet ouvrage a obtenu la Mention spéciale de l'Institut international des droits de l'Homme, à Strasbourg, dans le cadre du prix de thèse René Cassin 2011 visant à récompenser la meilleure thèse francophone dont le sujet est lié aux droits de l'Homme." -- Provided by publisher.


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Problematizing Religious Freedom
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ISBN: 9048189926 9786613453204 1283453207 9048189934 Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,

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The central claim of this book is that although the concept of religious freedom as a human rights concept is emblematic on the one hand, the concept is also problematic on the other, that its implications are far from self-evident despite the ready acceptance the term receives as embodying a worthwhile goal. This book therefore problematizes the concept along legal, constitutional, ethical, and theological lines, and especially from the perspective of religious studies, so that religious freedom in the world could be enlarged in a way which promotes human flourishing. "Is religion always something good, a benefit to humanity? A  detailed examination of the religions as they affect and have affected the world raises disturbing questions, and this authoritative treatment of them will provide a focus of discussion for years to come. I congratulate the author. The result is invaluable for both scholars and students, and I commend it to both without reservation." John Hick Professor Emeritus, Birmingham University, UK, and the Claremont Graduate University, California Vice-President, British Society for the Philosophy of Religion and World Congress of Faiths "Problematizing Religious Freedom is an intensely provocative book.  It takes the reader through discussions and debates about the nature and definition of religion, distinctions between missionary and non-missionary traditions, concepts of conversion and proselytism, attitudes and understandings of religious freedom internal to various traditions, and the semantic  dimensions and practical implications of the phrase "religious freedom" as it is employed in the contemporary human rights community and beyond.  Although one may not agree with all of his points, there is no gainsaying the fact that Sharma greatly illuminates a set of important problems - and from a distinctive point of view that is vigorously argued." Sumner B. Twiss, Distinguished Professor of Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion Florida State University Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, Brown University.


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Freedom of religion under bills of rights
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ISBN: 9780987171801 9780987171818 098717181X 0987171801 Year: 2012 Publisher: Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press,

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How can a nation protect fundamental rights and freedoms, including religious freedom, within a liberal democratic context? The objective of the essays presentedin this volume is to provide an overview of the principal modelsused to protect fundamental freedoms, and especially the right to freedom of belief,expression and practice of one’s religion, in major liberal democratic systems. A range of viewpoints are presented in a comparative way in orderto obtain insights, reveal strengths, weaknesses and differences of opinion, and tolearn from the lessons of others, how religion might be and has been protected.

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