Religion in liberal political philosophy [Texte imprimé] /
edited by Cécile Laborde and Aurélia Bardon
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017
- 1 vol. (342 p.) ; 24 cm
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Introduction / The Special Status of Religion in the Law: : Religion, Equality, and Anarchy / A Rawlsian Defense of Special Treatment for Religion / The Irrelevance of Religion to Law / Understanding Religion, Governing Religion: A Realist Perspective / The Consequences of Disaggregation and the Impossibility of a Third Way / Sovereignty, Non-Establishment, Neutrality: Sovereignty, the Corporate Religious, and Jurisdictional/Political Pluralism / Religious Establishment and Public Justification / What's the Problem with Symbolic Religious Establishment? The Alienation and Symbolic Equality Accounts / Is Ethical Independence Enough? / On the Scope and Object of Neutrality: Policies, Principles, and 'Burdens of Conscience' / Accommodation and Religious Freedom: Religious Exemption and Distributive Justice / Religious Accommodation: Responsibility, Integrity, and Self-Respect / Exemptions for Conscience / Religious Exemptions and Fairness / How the Interests of Children Limit the Religious Freedom of Parents / Equality and Conscience: Ethics and the Provision of Public Services / Toleration, Conscience, Identity: Religion, Reason, and Toleration: Bayle, Kant-- and Us / Toleration Without Limits: A Reconstruction and Defence of Pierre Bayle's Philosophical Commentary / Liberalism and Identity / Conscience in Public Life / Is Religious Conviction Special? / How Should We Respect Conscience? / Cécile Laborde and Aurélia Bardon -- Micah Schwartzman ; Andrew Koppelman ; George Letsas ; Enzo Rossi ; Ronan McCrea -- Jean L. Cohen ; Kevin Vallier ; Sune Laegaard ; Matthew Clayton ; Saladin Meckled-Garcia -- Peter Jones ; Jonathan Seglow ; Simon Căbulea May ; Alan Patten ; Daniel M. Weinstock ; Annabelle Lever -- Rainer Forst ; Chandran Kukathas ; Akeel Bilgrami ; Maeve Cooke ; Kimberley Brownlee ; Emanuela Ceva Part I. 1. 2 3. 4. 5. Part II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Part III. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Part IV. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
Until now, there has been no direct and extensive engagement with the category of religion from liberal political philosophy. Over the last thirty years or so, liberals have tended to analyze religion under proximate categories such as 'conceptions of the good' (in debates about neutrality) or 'culture' (in debates about multiculturalism). US constitutional lawyers and French political theorists both tackled the category of religion head-on (under First Amendment jurisprudence and the political tradition of laicite, respectively) but neither of these specialized national discourses found their way into mainstream liberal political philosophy. This is somewhat paradoxical because key liberal notions (state sovereignty, toleration, individual freedom, the rights of conscience, public reason) were elaborated as a response to 17th Century European Wars of Religion, and the fundamental structure of liberalism is rooted in the western experience of politico-religious conflict. So a reappraisal of this tradition - and of its validity in the light of contemporary challenges - is well overdue. This book offers the first extensive engagement with religion from liberal political philosophers. The volume analyzes, from within the liberal philosophical tradition itself, the key notions of conscience, public reason, non-establishment, and neutrality. Insofar as the contemporary religious revival is seen as posing a challenge to liberalism, it seems more crucial than ever to explore the specific resources that the liberal tradition has to answer it
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