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The Tragedy of Religious Freedom (Hardcover)
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The Tragedy of Religious Freedom (Hardcover)
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When it comes to questions of religion, legal scholars face a
predicament. They often expect to resolve dilemmas according to
general principles of equality, neutrality, or the separation of
church and state. But such abstractions fail to do justice to the
untidy welter of values at stake. Offering new views of how to
understand and protect religious freedom in a democracy, The
Tragedy of Religious Freedom challenges the idea that matters of
law and religion should be referred to far-flung theories about the
First Amendment. Examining a broad array of contemporary and more
established Supreme Court rulings, Marc DeGirolami explains why
conflicts implicating religious liberty are so emotionally fraught
and deeply contested. Twenty-first-century realities of pluralism
have outrun how scholars think about religious freedom, DeGirolami
asserts. Scholars have not been candid enough about the tragic
nature of the conflicts over religious liberty--the clash of
opposing interests and aspirations they entail, and the limits of
human reason to resolve intractable differences. The Tragedy of
Religious Freedom seeks to turn our attention from abstracted,
absolute values to concrete, historical realities. Social history,
characterized by the struggles of lawyers engaged in the details of
irreducible conflicts, represents the most promising avenue to
negotiate legal conflicts over religion. In this volume, DeGirolami
offers an approach to understanding religious liberty that is
neither rigidly systematic nor ad hoc, but a middle path grounded
in a pluralistic and historically informed perspective.
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