The possibility of religious freedom: early natural law and the Abrahamic faiths
Religion and Law in Late Modernity -- Antigone: The Tragedy of Human and Divine Law -- Maimonides' Middle Way: Teleology as a Guide for the Perplexed -- Between Shari'a and Human Law: Ibn Rushd and the Unwritten Law of Nature -- Arguing Natural Law: Tertullian and Religious Freedom in the...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Port Melbourne New Delhi
Cambridge University Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Taliaferro, Karen, ca. 20./21. Jh., The possibility of religious freedom] (2020) (Tollefsen, Christopher, 1968 -)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Secularism
/ Religious freedom
/ Legislation
/ Ius divinum
/ Natural law
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations |
| Further subjects: | B
Abrahamic Religions
B Natural Law B Freedom Of Religion |
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Table of Contents Blurb Literaturverzeichnis |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Religion and Law in Late Modernity -- Antigone: The Tragedy of Human and Divine Law -- Maimonides' Middle Way: Teleology as a Guide for the Perplexed -- Between Shari'a and Human Law: Ibn Rushd and the Unwritten Law of Nature -- Arguing Natural Law: Tertullian and Religious Freedom in the Roman Empire -- Conclusion: Paradox and the Possibilities of Religious Freedom -- Appendix: Abbreviations for Tertullian's works -- Conclusion Natural Law, Modernity and Aporia -- Beyond Religious Freedom: Natural Law and Other Human Rights -- Beyond Political Theory: The Study of Nature -- Beyond Theory: The Practices of Natural Law and Religious Freedom in Society -- Moving Forward: Religious Freedom and the Way of Aporia -- Epilogue: Religious Freedom in Qatar. "This book is a call to reconsider the nature of religious freedom. It is intended both as an honest examination of the unique difficulty of religious liberty as well as the resources we have for protecting it in the twenty-first century. It makes two claims: first, that religious freedom presents a philosophical and legal problem because it requires the arbitration of two sets of law and obligation, human and divine. Secondly, it claims that expanding our conception of law to incorporate not only human and divine but also natural law provides the best available basis for religious freedom, with implications for justice and other human rights more generally. Barring natural law, as Thomas Hobbes rightly observed, either the human law or the divine law must have the ultimate authority, neither of which is desirable or even feasible in late modernity. Both secular liberal and religious attempts to protect religious freedom end in an endless agon between human law and divine law, a struggle made all the more vicious by the heightened pluralism and globalization of our current moment. Rather, making use of natural law as a mediator between human and divine law represents the best path forward in late modernity"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1108423957 |