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Liberalism's Religion (Hardcover)
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Liberalism's Religion (Hardcover)
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Liberal societies conventionally treat religion as unique under the
law, requiring both special protection (as in guarantees of free
worship) and special containment (to keep religion and the state
separate). But recently this idea that religion requires a legal
exception has come under fire from those who argue that religion is
no different from any other conception of the good, and the state
should treat all such conceptions according to principles of
neutrality and equal liberty. Cecile Laborde agrees with much of
this liberal egalitarian critique, but she argues that a simple
analogy between the good and religion misrepresents the complex
relationships among religion, law, and the state. Religion serves
as more than a statement of belief about what is true, or a code of
moral and ethical conduct. It also refers to comprehensive ways of
life, political theories of justice, modes of voluntary
association, and vulnerable collective identities. Disaggregating
religion into its various dimensions, as Laborde does, has two
clear advantages. First, it shows greater respect for ethical and
social pluralism by ensuring that whatever treatment religion
receives from the law, it receives because of features that it
shares with nonreligious beliefs, conceptions, and identities.
Second, it dispenses with the Western, Christian-inflected
conception of religion that liberal political theory relies on,
especially in dealing with the issue of separation between religion
and state. As a result, Liberalism's Religion offers a novel answer
to the question: Can Western theories of secularism and religion be
applied more universally in non-Western societies?
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