Getting Over Equality : a Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America.

Getting Over Equality : a Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America.

Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. But there is also a sense that the prevailing discourse is exhausted, that no one seems to kno...

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Main Author: Smith, Steven D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2001.
Series:Critical America.
Subjects:
Protestantism > United States.
Religious tolerance > United States.
LAW / General
Protestantism
Religious tolerance
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Beyond Failure; I How Firm a Foundation?; l Blooming Confusion: Religious Equality in the"Age of Madison"; 2 Religion, Democracy, and Autonomy: A Political Parable; 3 Is a Theory of Religious Freedom Possible?; II What Shall We Do? (or How the Supreme CourtCan Stop Making Things Worse); 4 Unprincipled Religious Freedom; 5 The Unhappy Demise of the Doctrine of Tolerance; 6 Demons in the Discourse; III Can Faith Tolerate?; 7 The (Compelling?) Case for Religious Intolerance; 8 Theism and Tolerance; Notes; Index; About the Author.

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