The possibility of religious freedom : early natural law and the Abrahamic faiths / Karen Taliaferro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taliaferro, Karen, author.

Series:

Law and Christianity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of religion.

Natural law.

Abrahamic religions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 159 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Oct 2019).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781108539319

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