Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious EqualityBasic Books, 5 lut 2008 - 416 In one of the great triumphs of the colonial and Revolutionary periods, the founders of the future United States overcame religious intolerance in favor of a constitutional order dedicated to fair treatment for people's deeply held conscientious beliefs. It granted equal liberty of conscience to all and took a firm stand against religious establishment. This respect for religious difference, acclaimed scholar Martha Nussbaum writes, formed our democracy. Yet today there are signs that this legacy is misunderstood. The prominence of a particular type of Christianity in our public life suggests the unequal worth of citizens who hold different religious beliefs, or no beliefs. Other people, meanwhile, seek to curtail the influence of religion in public life in a way that is itself unbalanced and unfair. Such partisan efforts, Nussbaum argues, violate the spirit of our Constitution. Liberty of Conscience is a historical and conceptual study of the American tradition of religious freedom. Weaving together political history, philosophical ideas, and key constitutional cases, this is a rich chronicle of an ideal of equality that has always been central to our history but is now in serious danger. |
Spis treści
Principles | |
Dangers | |
History and | |
LIVING TOGETHER | |
Jehovahs Witnesses and the Crisis Over Loyalty | |
AntiCatholicism and the Separation of Church and State | |
Fear and Constitutional Principles | |
THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE I Establishment and Equality | |
Equality Coercion and Peer Pressure | |
Moments of Silence Graduation Prayer | |
Equality in Context | |
The Ten Commandments | |
This wild and howling land | |
Williamss Rhode Island III This Conscience is found in all mankinde Williamss Defense of IV A Model of Church and Civil Power | |
Truth and Peace Their Meetings Seldome and Short | |
PROCLAIMING EQUALITY | |
The Stoic Background | |
Attacking Establishment | |
Madison and the Virginia Assessment Controversy | |
Framing the Constitutional Text | |
Two Misleading Theories | |
Minorities in a World of Majority | |
Accommodation at the Founding | |
A Note on Incorporation | |
Mrs Sherberts Job the Yoder Childrens Schooling | |
Employment Division v Smith | |
Restoring the Balance? | |
Should Religion Be Special? | |
FEARING STRANGERS I Principles and Anxieties | |
Always Odious? | |
The Tradition Under Assault | |
A Climate of Suspicion | |
Neutrality as Fairness | |
The Search for Separation | |
Return to Neutrality | |
Pursuing Fairness | |
Vouchers and Scholarships | |
CONTEMPORARY CONTROVERSIES I Equal Liberty of Conscience Today | |
The Pledge Present and Future | |
Debating Evolution | |
Imagination and Difference in the Classroom | |
SameSex Marriage | |
The Alleged Muslim Threat | |
CONCLUSION | |
Acknowledgements NOTES | |
INDEX OF CASES Copyright Page | |
Inne wydania - Wyświetl wszystko
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality Martha Craven Nussbaum Ograniczony podgląd - 2008 |
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality Martha Nussbaum Ograniczony podgląd - 2008 |
Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America's Tradition of Religious Equality Martha Nussbaum Podgląd niedostępny - 2010 |
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