The Possibility of Religious Freedom

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-108-42395-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 420 g

Reihe: Law and Christianity

Religious freedom is one of the most debated and controversial human rights in contemporary public discourse. At once a universally held human right and a flash point in the political sphere, religious freedom has resisted scholarly efforts to define its parameters. Taliaferro explores a different way of examining the tensions between the aims of religion and the needs of political communities, arguing that religious freedom is a uniquely difficult human right to uphold because it rests on two competing conceptions, human and divine. Drawing on classical natural law, Taliaferro expounds a new, practical theory of religious freedom for the modern world. By examining conceptions of law such as Sophocles' Antigone, Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed, Ibn Rushd's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, and Tertullian's writings, The Possibility of Religious Freedom explains how expanding our notion of law to incorporate such theories can mediate conflicts of human and divine law and provide a solid foundation for religious liberty in modernity's pluralism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taliaferro, Karen

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Leben & Brauch, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Religion and law in late modernity; 2. Antigone: the tragedy of human and divine law; 3. Maimonides' middle way: teleology as a guide for the perplexed; 4. Between Shari'a and human law: Ibn Rushd and the unwritten law of nature; 5. Arguing natural law: Tertullian and religious freedom in the Roman Empire; Conclusion. Natural law, modernity and aporia; Epilogue. Religious freedom in Qatar.

Über Autor(innen)

Taliaferro, Karen
Karen Taliaferro is Assistant Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. She has held fellowships at Princeton University's James Madison Program and Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service-Qatar, as well as an NSEP Boren Fellowship in Morocco, where she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer.