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Brothertown and Religious Autonomy

2023
This chapter recounts the conflict that arose between the residents of Brothertown and their state-appointed superintendents in early 1799. It talks about the Brothertown Indian community that was organized by Algonquian-speaking Christian Indians and led by the famous Presbyterian minister Samson Occom of the Mohegan nation.
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Religious Group Autonomy

2005
Abstract This chapter examines religious group autonomy which comprises the right of religious communities to determine and administer their own internal religious affairs without interference from the state. The importance of religious group autonomy (or church autonomy, to use the traditional label) to any overall scheme of religious ...
REX AHDAR, IAN LEIGH
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ETHICAL AUTONOMY IN RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

Practice Oriented Science: UAE – RUSSIA – INDIA
The article undertakes an analysis of the ethical concepts ofphilosophers and religious thinkers. The interaction of a person as a socialbeing is compared with religious scriptures. An attempt is being made to bringtogether the philosophical and theological discourse for a comprehensive andmore complete understanding of the reality of human actions ...
Osokin, A.N., Voronova, I.A.
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The autonomy of religious experience

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 1992
In this paper I want to make a start at defending the idea that the experience of God, or, as I shall say, the perception1 of God plays an epistemic role with respect to beliefs about God importantly analogous to that played by sense perception with respect to beliefs about the physical world.
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The Sect and Religious Autonomy

The Sociological Quarterly, 1964
(1965). The Sect and Religious Autonomy. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 45-58.
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Religious Obedience and Moral Autonomy

Religious Studies, 1975
It has become fashionable to try to prove the impossibility of there being a God. Findlay's celebrated ontological disproof has in the past quarter century given rise to vigorous controversy. More recently James Rachels has offered a moral argument intended to show that there could not be a being worthy of worship.
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Security, Religious Autonomy, and the Good Society

The Review of Faith & International Affairs, 2007
Abstract Rather than thinking of freedom and security as values in opposition to each other, we can find ways in which they can exist as mutually enhancing strands of a single cord. Ten strategies are presented that enable us to enhance both religion and security as essential components of a healthy society: distinguishing between groups and ...
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