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Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality - Couverture rigide

Nussbaum, Martha

 
9780465051649: Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0465051642 ISBN 13 : 9780465051649
Editeur : Basic Books, 2008

Synopsis

In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. This respect for religious difference, acclaimed scholar Martha Nussbaum writes, formed our democracy. Yet today there are signs that this legacy is misunderstood. The prominence of a particular type of Christianity in our public life suggests the unequal worth of citizens who hold different religious beliefs, or no beliefs. Other people, meanwhile, seek to curtail the influence of religion in public life in a way that is itself unbalanced and unfair. Such partisan efforts, Nussbaum argues, violate the spirit of our Constitution. Liberty of Conscience is a historical and conceptual study of the American tradition of religious freedom. Weaving together political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases, this is a rich chronicle of an ideal of equality that has always been central to our history but is now in serious danger.

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À propos de l'auteur

Martha C. Nussbaum holds appointments in the Philosophy Department, Law School, and Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is the author of thirteen previous books. Her Cultivating Humanity won the 2002 Grawemeyer Award for Education. She holds thirty honorary degrees from universities around the world. She lives in Chicago and Cambridge.

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Éditeur
Basic Books
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0465051642
ISBN 13 
9780465051649
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
416
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