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Studia Canonica, 2023
Abstract This chapter addresses the relationship between religious liberty and freedom of conscience, seeking to re-evaluate the Christian contribution in the light of current controversial conscience claims. It identifies two significant trends. The first and dominant one is for Christian writers to treat conscience as a matter of moral
Olga Breskaya +2 more
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Abstract This chapter addresses the relationship between religious liberty and freedom of conscience, seeking to re-evaluate the Christian contribution in the light of current controversial conscience claims. It identifies two significant trends. The first and dominant one is for Christian writers to treat conscience as a matter of moral
Olga Breskaya +2 more
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Abstract The First Amendment’s first lines bar the government from any “law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise of thereof.” Religious wars in England, Europe, and the colonies demonstrated how religion might pose a danger to the Republic.
Elizabeth Lane Miller, Helene Fisher
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Elizabeth Lane Miller, Helene Fisher
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2018
The secular principle of religious freedom is complicated by the postsecular recognition that religion has societal relevance beyond the religious sphere. This chapter focuses on the public activism of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) regarding religious freedom.
Karl Gabriel +2 more
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The secular principle of religious freedom is complicated by the postsecular recognition that religion has societal relevance beyond the religious sphere. This chapter focuses on the public activism of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) regarding religious freedom.
Karl Gabriel +2 more
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2022
While states are recognised as secular and provide for religious freedom, the region is still heavily informed by Catholicism. Uruguay is a unique example with strict church-state separation, both legally and culturally. Christianity in region nevertheless continues to feature as a colonial religion linked to various empires.
Néstor Da Costa, Ana María Bidegain
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While states are recognised as secular and provide for religious freedom, the region is still heavily informed by Catholicism. Uruguay is a unique example with strict church-state separation, both legally and culturally. Christianity in region nevertheless continues to feature as a colonial religion linked to various empires.
Néstor Da Costa, Ana María Bidegain
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2017
Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national ...
Frans Veerman, Christof Sauer
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Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about religious freedom were continually reinvented through a vibrant national ...
Frans Veerman, Christof Sauer
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2002
This volume provides in a single source a thorough grounding in the origin, development, and current controversies surrounding the free practice of religion. The first boatloads of European settlers did not come to America advocating religious tolerance. They came seeking the freedom to practice their own religion. Other sects, they believed,
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This volume provides in a single source a thorough grounding in the origin, development, and current controversies surrounding the free practice of religion. The first boatloads of European settlers did not come to America advocating religious tolerance. They came seeking the freedom to practice their own religion. Other sects, they believed,
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Religious Freedom, American-Style
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014This essay has two parts. It begins with an introduction to the 1998 U.S. International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) and the bureaucratic and administrative structures it created. This programming is the latest installment in a history of U.S. attempts to promote American strategic interests through social and religious engineering projects abroad ...
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