Religious Freedom in a Secular Age
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| Description: | VHI Lecture Series 'Faith and Governance': Professor Cécile Laborde (UCL), Friday 29 November 2013 |
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| Created: | 2013-12-13 10:16 |
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| Collection: | Von Hugel Institute |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Von Hugel Institute |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | How (and why) do we protect freedom of religion in an age where religion is not special? Egalitarian theorists of religious freedom, such as Charles Taylor and Ronald Dworkin, have argued that freedom of religion is in fact a sub-set of a broader class of freedoms. Exercising one's freedom of religion is one of the ways in which we exercise a more generic freedom - moral freedom. An egalitarian theory of religious freedom does not deny that religious belief is special and should be respected. What it denies is that religious belief is uniquely special: it can and should be analogised with other beliefs and commitments. |
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