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Religion and the Exercise of Public Authority (Paperback)
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In the burgeoning literature on law and religion, scholarly
attention has tended to focus on broad questions concerning the
scope of religious freedom, the nature of toleration and the
meaning of secularism. An under-examined issue is how religion
figures in the decisions, actions and experiences of those charged
with performing public duties. This point of contact between
religion and public authority has generated a range of legal and
political controversies around issues such as the wearing of
religious symbols by public officials, prayer at municipal
government meetings, religious education and conscientious
objection by public servants. Authored by scholars from a variety
of disciplines, the chapters in this volume provide insight into
these and other issues. Yet the volume also provides an entry point
into a deeper examination of the concepts that are often used to
organise and manage religious diversity, notably state neutrality.
By examining the exercise of public authority by individuals who
are religiously committed - or who, in the discharge of their
public responsibilities, must account for those who are - this
volume exposes the assumptions about legal and political life that
underlie the concept of state neutrality and reveals its limits as
a governing ideal.
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