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Religious oppression, up to and including genocide, remains a real and under-reported reality for many people in Asia, Africa, Europe and even North America today. This book documents that reality and recommends specific measures to report and alleviate it.

Freedom of religion --- Toleration

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Religious intolerance is very old and widespread - a phenomenon of a highly distinctive nature which defies reduction to a simpler kind of vice. Methods of achieving religious tolerance have long been in dispute because there is much confusion about its nature.In this book, Professor Newman attempts to clarify the concept of religious tolerance in a way that other recent philosophical studies have clarified such concepts as justice, freedom, and equality. While there is a great deal of literature on theological, psychological, sociological, and political aspects of the problem, little has been said about the more fundamental ethical and epistemological issues that arise from philosophical reflection on religious competition and conflict.Newman addresses such questions as: How does religious intolerance differ from religious prejudice? Does being tolerant require commitment to relativism, pluralism, secularism, or universalism? Can a State live up to its promise to allow its citizens freedom of religion? Is intolerance a vice or a deep-rooted psychosis? Is it an inevitable by-product of education socialization? In shedding light on these and related problems, offering tentative solutions, and drawing on the writings of such philosophers as Aristotle, Aquinas, Spinoza, and Hume and such modern thinkers as Gordon Allport, Ronald Knox, and Walter Lippmann, Foundations of Religious Tolerance will assist clergymen, scholars, and laymen in their attempts to promote social harmony and mutual understanding among people of different faiths.This book will be especially useful in university courses and other programs in religious studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology of religion, or that deal with prejudice and discrimination.

Religious tolerance. --- Freedom of religion.

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Freedom of religion --- Social conflict --- Religious aspects.

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La liberté, cette valeur si précieuse, est de nos jours à ce point sacrée qu'elle ne semble supporter aucune limite. En son nom, nos représentants politiques, la population en général, mais aussi l'élite intellectuelle et, de façon prééminente, la magistrature vont parfois jusqu'à remettre en cause la laïcité de l'Etat en la jugeant incompatible avec la liberté de religion, sinon hostile à son endroit.Cet essai affirme que c'est là faire preuve d'une profonde méconnaissance du principe de laïcité. En s'appuyant sur la grande tradition de la pensée occidentale qui, d'Antigone aux constitutions modernes, a établi une nette séparation entre pouvoir politique et pouvoir religieux, l'auteur montre que la liberté religieuse (celle de la croyance) ne cautionne pas l'expansionnisme religieux qui cherche à étendre ses tentacules dans les divers secteurs de l'activité sociale et civile et que seule une conception abusive et absolutiste de la liberté a pu mener à ce qu'on nomme désormais le "gouvernement des juges" .Bien comprise, la liberté religieuse permet au contraire de réaffirmer la légitimité de la laïcité de l'Etat. Partant de la problématique propre à la société canadienne et québécoise, par son langage clair et son argumentation serrée, cet ouvrage est une contribution fondamentale et universelle aux débats qui agitent nos sociétés, y compris en France.

Religion and state --- Secularism --- Freedom of religion

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Liberty --- Freedom of religion --- Religious aspects --- Islam