The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom - Couverture rigide

Livre 16 sur 17: Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
 
9780812253375: The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom
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ISBN 10 : 081225337X ISBN 13 : 9780812253375
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021

Synopsis

The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom offers theoretical, historical, and legal perspectives on religious freedom, while examining its meaning as an experience, value, and right. The volume starts from the premise that the terrain of religious freedom has never been easy and smooth. Across societies and throughout history, defending or contesting principles of religious freedom has required compromise among multiple interests, balancing values, and wrangling with the law.

Drawing on examples from the United States and around the world, and approaching the subject from the disciplines of history, law, sociology, philosophy, religious studies, and political science, the essays in this volume illustrate these challenges. They sketch the contours of contemporary debates while showing how the landscape of religious freedom has shifted over time. They consider various stakeholders that have asserted competing claims, among them individuals and groups; members of minority and majority communities; states and corporations (including both religious organizations and businesses); and believers and non-believers. Taken together, the studies in this volume suggest that understanding religious freedom means grappling with conflicting and perhaps irreconcilable claims about whose rights should prevail over others, what religion is or may be, and how religion should relate to other cultural values.

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À propos de l?auteur

Heather J. Sharkey is Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Jeffrey Edward Green is Director of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
081225337X
ISBN 13 
9780812253375
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
296
Éditeur
Sharkey Heather J., Green Jeffrey Edward
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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