Equality, Freedom, and Religion
Title | Equality, Freedom, and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Trigg |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2012-01-05 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0191613371 |
Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes second place in the law of different countries to the pursuit of other social priorities. The right to freedom of belief and to manifest belief is written into all human rights charters. In the United States religious freedom is sometimes seen as 'the first freedom'. Yet increasingly in many jurisdictions in Europe and North America, religious freedom can all too easily be 'trumped' by other rights. Roger Trigg looks at the assumptions that lie behind the subordination of religious liberty to other social concerns, especially the pursuit of equality. He gives examples from different Western countries of a steady erosion of freedom of religion. The protection of freedom of worship is often seen as sufficient, and religious practices are separated from the beliefs which inspire them. So far from religion in general, and Christianity in particular, providing a foundation for our beliefs in human dignity and human rights, religion is all too often seen as threat and a source of conflict, to be controlled at all costs. The challenge is whether any freedom can preserved for long, if the basic human right to freedom of religious belief and practice is dismissed as of little account, with no attempt to provide any reasonable accommodation. Given the central role of religion in human life, unnecessary limitations on its expression are attacks on human freedom itself.
The Social Equality of Religion or Belief
Title | The Social Equality of Religion or Belief PDF eBook |
Author | A. Carling |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-03-14 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781137501943 |
Some countries, like the UK, give special recognition by the state to one or a few religions; other countries, like France and the US, give recognition to none. This book is about a new approach that gives equal recognition to all religions and non-religious belief systems.
Religion and Equality
Title | Religion and Equality PDF eBook |
Author | W. Cole Durham, Jr. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2016-05-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1317068076 |
This volume presents an analysis of controversial events and issues shaping a rapidly changing international legal, political, and social landscape. Leading scholars and experts in law, religious studies and international relations, thoughtfully consider issues and tensions arising in contemporary debates over religion and equality in many parts of the world. The book is in two parts. The first section focuses on the anti-discrimination dimension of religious freedom norms, examining the developing law on equality and human rights and how it operates at international and national levels. The second section provides a series of case studies exploring the contemporary issue of same-sex marriage and how it affects religious groups and believers. This collection will be of interest to academics and scholars of law, religious studies, political science, and sociology, as well as policymakers and legal practitioners.
Proportionality, Equality Laws, and Religion
Title | Proportionality, Equality Laws, and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Megan Pearson |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2017-03-16 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1317074564 |
This book considers how the law should manage conflicts between the right of religious freedom and that of non-discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. These disputes are often high-profile and frequently receive a lot of media attention and public debate. Starting from the basis that both these rights are valuable and worthy of protection, but that such disputes are often characterised by animosity, it contends that a proportionality analysis provides the best method for resolving these conflicts. The work takes a comparative approach, examining the law in England and Wales, Canada, and the USA and examines four main areas of law, considering how a proportionality approach could be used in each. The book will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers in the areas of Public Law, Human Rights Law, Law and Religion, Discrimination Law, and Comparative Law.
Unconditional Equality
Title | Unconditional Equality PDF eBook |
Author | Ajay Skaria |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 597 |
Release | 2016-02-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1452949808 |
Unconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi’s critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha (passive resistance) as a politics that strives for the absolute equality of all beings. Liberal traditions usually affirm an abstract equality centered on some form of autonomy, the Kantian term for the everyday sovereignty that rational beings exercise by granting themselves universal law. But for Gandhi, such equality is an “equality of sword”—profoundly violent not only because it excludes those presumed to lack reason (such as animals or the colonized) but also because those included lose the power to love (which requires the surrender of autonomy or, more broadly, sovereignty). Gandhi professes instead a politics organized around dharma, or religion. For him, there can be “no politics without religion.” This religion involves self-surrender, a freely offered surrender of autonomy and everyday sovereignty. For Gandhi, the “religion that stays in all religions” is satyagraha—the agraha (insistence) on or of satya (being or truth). Ajay Skaria argues that, conceptually, satyagraha insists on equality without exception of all humans, animals, and things. This cannot be understood in terms of sovereignty: it must be an equality of the minor.
The Social Equality of Religion or Belief
Title | The Social Equality of Religion or Belief PDF eBook |
Author | A. Carling |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 279 |
Release | 2016-05-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137501952 |
Some countries, like the UK, give special recognition by the state to one or a few religions; other countries, like France and the US, give recognition to none. This book is about a new approach that gives equal recognition to all religions and non-religious belief systems.
Religious Exemptions
Title | Religious Exemptions PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Vallier |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2018 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0190666188 |
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.