This text articulates the relationships involving hermeneutics and scriptural politics in the complex fields of religious freedom and human rights, with particular focus on women and minorities in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
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The right to wear religious symbols
by Whistler, Daniel, Hill, Daniel J.
fromPalgrave Pivot
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Type: Book
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 c…
"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 …
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 Warren vs. Boca Raton, a recent case c…
"Que nous dit Charlie, alors que se dissipent les ultimes mirages du 11 janvier ? Que le blasphème n'est pas de retour car il ne nous a jamais quittés. Qu'il n'est pas un principe religieux, mais qu'il a toujours été un instrument politique. De Rushdie à Dieudonné, d'Islamabad à…
This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory--why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why, for example, can a religious soup kitchen get an exemption from zonin…
Part I: Overcoming the current crisis -- Monotheism, tolerance, and pluralism : the current impasse -- Learning from the past : introducing the thinkers of the religion of reason -- Part II: Mendelssohn : idolatry and indiscernability -- Mendelssohn and the repudiation of divine…
"Why are religious tolerance and pluralism so difficult to achieve? Why is the often violent fundamentalist backlash against them so potent? Robert Erlewine looks to a new religion of reason for answers to these questions. Drawing on Enlightenment writers Moses Mendelssohn, Imma…
Why are religious tolerance and pluralism so difficult to achieve? Why is the often violent fundamentalist backlash against them so potent? Robert Erlewine looks to a new religion of reason for answers to these questions. Drawing on Enlightenment writers Moses Mendelssohn, Imman…
Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contempor…
Incorporating philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, this collection identifies the connections between religion and the state that are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesse…
Discusses the political challenges of Fethullah Gülen, a religious leader in Turkey.
