Religious Freedom And You

Author : Robert Boston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781616149116

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Taking Liberties by Robert Boston Pdf

"A concise and lucid explanation of what religious freedom is and isn'tncreasingly, conservative religious groups are using religious liberty as a sword to lash out at others. In this forcefully argued defense of the separation of church and state, Robert Boston makes it clear that the religious freedom guaranteed in the First Amendment is an individual right, the right of personal conscience, not a license allowing religious organizations to discriminate against and control others. The book examines the controversy over birth control, same-sex marriage, religion in public schools, the intersection of faith and politics, and the "war on Christmas," among other topics. Boston concludes with a series of recommendations for resolving clashes between religious liberty claims and individual rights."

Author : Holly Fernandez Lynch,I. Glenn Cohen,Elizabeth Sepper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107164888

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Law, Religion, and Health in the United States by Holly Fernandez Lynch,I. Glenn Cohen,Elizabeth Sepper Pdf

This book explores the critical role of law in protecting - and protecting against - religious beliefs in American health care.

Author : Brett G. Scharffs,Asher Maoz,Ashley Isaacson Woolley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351369718

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Religious Freedom and the Law by Brett G. Scharffs,Asher Maoz,Ashley Isaacson Woolley Pdf

This volume presents a timely analysis of some of the current controversies relating to freedom for religion and freedom from religion that have dominated headlines worldwide. The collection trains the lens closely on select issues and contexts to provide detailed snapshots of the ways in which freedom for and from religion are conceptualized, protected, neglected, and negotiated in diverse situations and locations. A broad range of issues including migration, education, the public space, prisons and healthcare are discussed drawing examples from Europe, the US, Asia, Africa and South America. Including contributions from leading experts in the field, the book will be essential reading for researchers and policy-makers interested in Law and Religion.

Author : Michael F. Bird
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310538899

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Religious Freedom in a Secular Age by Michael F. Bird Pdf

Discover how to responsibly defend religious freedom for all without compromising your personal beliefs. Religious freedom is a bitterly contested issue that spills over into political, public, and online spheres. It's an issue that's becoming ever more heated, and neither of the global political polarities is interested in protecting it. While the political left is openly hostile toward traditional religion, the political right seeks to weaponize it. How can we ensure that "religious freedom" is truly about freedom of one's religion rather than serving an ethno-nationalist agenda? In Religious Freedom in a Secular Age, Michael Bird (New Testament scholar and author of Evangelical Theology) has four main goals: To explain the true nature of secularism and help us to see it as one of the best ways of promoting liberty and mutual respect in a multifaith world. To dismantle the arguments for limiting religious freedom. To outline a biblical strategy for maintaining a Christian witness in a post-Christian society. To encourage Christians to participate in a new age of apologetics by being prepared to defend not only their own believes but also the freedom of all faiths. While Bird does address the recent political administrations in the US, his focus is global. Bird—who lives in Melbourne, Australia—freely admits to his anxiety of the militant secularism surrounding him, but he also strongly critiques the marriage of national and religious identities that has gained ground in countries like Hungary and Poland. The fact is that religion has a lot to contribute to the common good. Religious Freedom in a Secular Age will challenge readers of all backgrounds and beliefs not only to make room for peaceable difference, but also to find common ground on the values of justice, mercy, and equality.

Author : Sahar F. Aziz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780520382305

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The Racial Muslim by Sahar F. Aziz Pdf

Why does a country with religious liberty enmeshed in its legal and social structures produce such overt prejudice and discrimination against Muslims? Sahar Aziz’s groundbreaking book demonstrates how race and religion intersect to create what she calls the Racial Muslim. Comparing discrimination against immigrant Muslims with the prejudicial treatment of Jews, Catholics, Mormons, and African American Muslims during the twentieth century, Aziz explores the gap between America’s aspiration for and fulfillment of religious freedom. With America’s demographics rapidly changing from a majority white Protestant nation to a multiracial, multireligious society, this book is an in dispensable read for understanding how our past continues to shape our present—to the detriment of our nation’s future.

Author : Mariëtta van der Tol,Carys Brown,E. S. Kempson,John Adenitire
Publisher : Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : 178997576X

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From Toleration to Religious Freedom by Mariëtta van der Tol,Carys Brown,E. S. Kempson,John Adenitire Pdf

This volume examines the knotty relationship between toleration and religious freedom. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, it explores how discourses on toleration impact on current debates about religious freedom, and challenges assumptions about the associations between religious ideas and the law. Bringing together scholarship from the fields of history, law, political science, philosophy, and theology, it throws into sharp relief the disciplinary presuppositions that have--sometimes misleadingly--shaped our understandings of toleration and religious freedom.

Author : Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691180953

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The Impossibility of Religious Freedom by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan Pdf

The Constitution may guarantee it. But religious freedom in America is, in fact, impossible. So argues this timely and iconoclastic work by law and religion scholar Winnifred Sullivan. Sullivan uses as the backdrop for the book the trial of Warner vs. Boca Raton, a recent case concerning the laws that protect the free exercise of religion in America. The trial, for which the author served as an expert witness, concerned regulations banning certain memorials from a multiconfessional nondenominational cemetery in Boca Raton, Florida. The book portrays the unsuccessful struggle of Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish families in Boca Raton to preserve the practice of placing such religious artifacts as crosses and stars of David on the graves of the city-owned burial ground. Sullivan demonstrates how, during the course of the proceeding, citizens from all walks of life and religious backgrounds were harassed to define just what their religion is. She argues that their plight points up a shocking truth: religion cannot be coherently defined for the purposes of American law, because everyone has different definitions of what religion is. Indeed, while religious freedom as a political idea was arguably once a force for tolerance, it has now become a force for intolerance, she maintains. A clear-eyed look at the laws created to protect religious freedom, this vigorously argued book offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society. It will have broad appeal not only for religion scholars, but also for anyone interested in law and the Constitution. Featuring a new preface by the author, The Impossibility of Religious Freedom offers a new take on a right deemed by many to be necessary for a free democratic society.

Author : Paul T. Babie,Neville G. Rochow,Brett G. Scharffs
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788977807

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Freedom of Religion or Belief by Paul T. Babie,Neville G. Rochow,Brett G. Scharffs Pdf

Using the metaphor of ‘constitutional space’, this thought-provoking book describes the confluence and convergence of powers in a constitutional system, comprised of the principled exercise of the legislative, executive and judicial powers of constitutional government. Addressing the issues surrounding the freedom of religion or belief, the book explores the dimensions of constitutional space and the content of this freedom, as well as comparative approaches to defining and protecting this freedom.

Author : Kevin Vallier,Michael E. Weber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190666187

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Religious Exemptions by Kevin Vallier,Michael E. Weber Pdf

Religious exemptions have a long history in American law, but have become especially controversial over the last several years. The essays in this volume address the moral and philosophical issues that the legal practice of religious exemptions often raises.

Author : Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691176222

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Beyond Religious Freedom by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Pdf

In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives. Policymakers have rallied around the notion that the fostering of religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, religious tolerance, and protections for religious minorities are the keys to combating persecution and discrimination. Beyond Religious Freedom persuasively argues that these initiatives create the very social tensions and divisions they are meant to overcome. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd looks at three critical channels of state-sponsored intervention: international religious freedom advocacy, development assistance and nation building, and international law. She shows how these initiatives make religious difference a matter of law, resulting in a divide that favors forms of religion authorized by those in power and excludes other ways of being and belonging. In exploring the dizzying power dynamics and blurred boundaries that characterize relations between "expert religion," "governed religion," and "lived religion," Hurd charts new territory in the study of religion in global politics. A forceful and timely critique of the politics of promoting religious freedom, Beyond Religious Freedom provides new insights into today's most pressing dilemmas of power, difference, and governance.

Author : Dwight Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0433490543

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Religious Freedom and Communities by Dwight Newman Pdf

Author : Michael I. Meyerson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300183498

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Endowed by Our Creator by Michael I. Meyerson Pdf

The debate over the framers' concept of freedom of religion has become heated and divisive. This scrupulously researched book sets aside the half-truths, omissions, and partisan arguments, and instead focuses on the actual writings and actions of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and others. Legal scholar Michael I. Meyerson investigates how the framers of the Constitution envisioned religious freedom and how they intended it to operate in the new republic. Endowed by Our Creator shows that the framers understood that the American government should not acknowledge religion in a way that favors any particular creed or denomination. Nevertheless, the framers believed that religion could instill virtue and help to unify a diverse nation. They created a spiritual public vocabulary, one that could communicate to all—including agnostics and atheists—that they were valued members of the political community. Through their writings and their decisions, the framers affirmed that respect for religious differences is a fundamental American value, Meyerson concludes. Now it is for us to determine whether religion will be used to alienate and divide or to inspire and unify our religiously diverse nation.

Author : Faith Ringgold
Publisher : Dragonfly Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780593482704

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We Came to America by Faith Ringgold Pdf

Acclaimed artist and Caldecott-winning picture book creator Faith Ringgold shares an inspiring look at America's lineage in this stunning ode to our country--past, present, and future. America is a land of diversity. Whether driven by dreams and hope, or escaping poverty or persecution, our ancestors--and the faces of America today--represent people from every reach of the globe. And each person brought with them a unique gift--of art and music; of determination and grit; of ideas and strength--that forever shaped the country we all call home. Vividly evoked in Faith Ringgold's sumptuous colors and patterns, WE CAME TO AMERICA is an ode to every American who came before us, and a tribute to the children who will carry its message into our future.

Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780525954156

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Making Sense of God by Timothy Keller Pdf

We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives? In this thoughtful and inspiring new book, pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy Keller invites skeptics to consider that Christianity is more relevant now than ever. As human beings, we cannot live without meaning, satisfaction, freedom, identity, justice, and hope. Christianity provides us with unsurpassed resources to meet these needs. Written for both the ardent believer and the skeptic, Making Sense of God shines a light on the profound value and importance of Christianity in our lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Church and state
ISBN : OCLC:11024888

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Religious Freedom and You by Anonim Pdf