Institutionalizing rights and religion: competing supremacies
Modern statesmen and political theorists have long struggled to design institutions that will simultaneously respect individual freedom of religion, nurture religion's capacity to be a force for civic good and human rights, and tame religion's illiberal tendencies. Moving past the usual fo...
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017.
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In: | Year: 2017 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Human rights
/ State
/ Political institution
/ Religious freedom
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Further subjects: | B
Civil Rights
Religious aspects
B Human rights ; Religious aspects B Civil rights ; Religious aspects B Civil Rights B Religion and state B Human Rights B Human Rights Religious aspects B Freedom Of Religion B Conference program |
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Erscheint auch als: 9781107153714 |
Summary: | Modern statesmen and political theorists have long struggled to design institutions that will simultaneously respect individual freedom of religion, nurture religion's capacity to be a force for civic good and human rights, and tame religion's illiberal tendencies. Moving past the usual focus on personal free expression of religion, this illuminating book - written by renowned scholars of law and religion from the United States, England, and Israel - considers how the institutional design of both religions and political regimes influences the relationship between religious practice and activity and human rights. The authors examine how the organization of religious communities affects human rights, and investigate the scope of a just state's authority with respect to organized religion in the name of human rights. They explore the institutional challenges posed by, and possible responses to, the fraught relationship between religion and rights in the world today. |
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Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2017) |
Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 272 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
ISBN: | 1316599965 |
Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/9781316599969 |