Transforming Religious Liberties: A New Theory of Religious Rights for National and International Legal Systems

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Transforming Religious Liberties: A New Theory of Religious Rights for National and International Legal Systems

By S. I. Strong
Cambridge University Press October 2017

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9781107179332
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
October 2017
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Hardback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Religious liberties are at the centre of many debates on how liberal democratic societies can accommodate diversity. This book brings the issue of religious liberties into the broad context of international, comparative and jurisprudential principles.

S. I. Strong proposes a new theoretical approach to religious liberty that both transcends and transforms current approaches to law and religion. Drawing on the historical ideas of legal and political philosophers including John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin and John Finnis, the text also tests the validity of new proposals against actual 'hard cases' generated through international, comparative and interdisciplinary analysis.

Overcoming longstanding challenges to existing religious rights regimes and identifying a new analytical paradigm that specifically addresses the types of tensions that arise in religiously pluralist societies, Strong's goal is to create a system that both religious and non-religious people can support and thereby increase civic peace between individuals and groups.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2. Current Approaches To Religious Rights
Chapter 3. The Religiously Orientated Original Position: Presumptions and Framework
Chapter 4. Purely Self-regarding Practices: Religious Acts with no Effect on others or Society
Chapter 5. Complex Self-regarding Practices: Religious Acts with an Effect on others or Society
Chapter 6. False Other-regarding Practices: Religious Directions to non-religious persons with no effect on others or society
Chapter 7. True Other-regarding Practices: Religious directions to non-religious persons with an effect on others or society
Chapter 8. Conclusion
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