Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-first Century

Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-first Century
Title Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-first Century PDF eBook
Author Gerard V. Bradley
Publisher
Pages 211
Release 2012
Genre Freedom of religion
ISBN 9781139337724

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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 U.S.'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"--Provided by publisher

Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century

Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century
Title Challenges to Religious Liberty in the Twenty-First Century PDF eBook
Author Gerard V. Bradley
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 231
Release 2012-03-12
Genre Law
ISBN 1107012449

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Almost everyone today affirms and applauds "religious liberty." But different and sometimes irreconcilable conceptions of religious liberty have emerged in our world, often as responses to specific challenges (for example, globalization or Islamic immigration). In this book, scholars in law, theology, and political theory exchange views on five specific challenges to religious liberty in the twenty-first century.

Religious Liberty in Crisis

Religious Liberty in Crisis
Title Religious Liberty in Crisis PDF eBook
Author Ken Starr
Publisher Encounter Books
Pages 192
Release 2021-04-13
Genre Law
ISBN 164177181X

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What was unfathomable in the first two decades of the twenty-first century has become a reality. Religious liberty, both in the United States and across the world, is in crisis. As we navigate the coming decades, We the People must know our rights more than ever, particularly as it relates to the freedom to exercise our religion. Armed with a proper understanding of this country’s rich tradition of religious liberty, we can protect faith through any crisis that comes our way. Without that understanding, though, we’ll watch as the creeping secular age erodes our freedom. In this book, Ken Starr explores the crises that threaten religious liberty in America. He also examines the ways well-meaning government action sometimes undermines the religious liberty of the people, and how the Supreme Court in the past has ultimately provided us protection from such forms of government overreach. He also explores the possibilities of future overreach by government officials. The reader will learn how each of us can resist the quarantining of our faith within the confines of the law, and why that resistance is important. Through gaining a deep understanding of the Constitutional importance of religious expression, Starr invites the reader to be a part of protecting those rights of religious freedom and taking a more active role in advancing the cause of liberty.

The Global Public Square

The Global Public Square
Title The Global Public Square PDF eBook
Author Os Guinness
Publisher InterVarsity Press
Pages 241
Release 2013-08-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0830837671

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Recognizing that tyranny takes on secular as well as traditional guises, Os Guinness seeks a return to the first principles of religious and political freedom. Hearkening back to the "soul liberty" of English Puritan Roger Williams, Guinness argues that a society's greatest bulwark against abuse lies in its people's freedom of conscience.

The Price of Freedom Denied

The Price of Freedom Denied
Title The Price of Freedom Denied PDF eBook
Author Brian J. Grim
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 273
Release 2010-12-06
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1139492411

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The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent persecution. Relying on a new source of coded data for nearly 200 countries and case studies of six countries, the book offers a global profile of religious freedom and religious persecution. Grim and Finke report that persecution is evident in all regions and is standard fare for many. They also find that religious freedoms are routinely denied and that government and the society at large serve to restrict these freedoms. They conclude that the price of freedom denied is high indeed.

New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century

New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century
Title New Religious Movements in the Twenty-first Century PDF eBook
Author Phillip Charles Lucas
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 378
Release 2004
Genre History
ISBN 9780415965767

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Myth of American Religious Freedom

The Myth of American Religious Freedom
Title The Myth of American Religious Freedom PDF eBook
Author David Sehat
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 368
Release 2011-01-14
Genre Religion
ISBN 0199793115

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In the battles over religion and politics in America, both liberals and conservatives often appeal to history. Liberals claim that the Founders separated church and state. But for much of American history, David Sehat writes, Protestant Christianity was intimately intertwined with the state. Yet the past was not the Christian utopia that conservatives imagine either. Instead, a Protestant moral establishment prevailed, using government power to punish free thinkers and religious dissidents. In The Myth of American Religious Freedom, Sehat provides an eye-opening history of religion in public life, overturning our most cherished myths. Originally, the First Amendment applied only to the federal government, which had limited authority. The Protestant moral establishment ruled on the state level. Using moral laws to uphold religious power, religious partisans enforced a moral and religious orthodoxy against Catholics, Jews, Mormons, agnostics, and others. Not until 1940 did the U.S. Supreme Court extend the First Amendment to the states. As the Supreme Court began to dismantle the connections between religion and government, Sehat argues, religious conservatives mobilized to maintain their power and began the culture wars of the last fifty years. To trace the rise and fall of this Protestant establishment, Sehat focuses on a series of dissenters--abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, socialist Eugene V. Debs, and many others. Shattering myths held by both the left and right, David Sehat forces us to rethink some of our most deeply held beliefs. By showing the bad history used on both sides, he denies partisans a safe refuge with the Founders.