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Human Nature and the Freedom of Public Religious Expression (Paperback, New)
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Human Nature and the Freedom of Public Religious Expression (Paperback, New)
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Drawing on current research in science and religion, distinguished
bioethicist Stephen G. Post provocatively argues that human beings
are, by nature, inclined toward a presence in the universe that is
higher than their own. In consequence, the institutions of everyday
life, such as schools, the workplace, and the public square, are
not justified in censoring the spiritual and religious expression
that freely arises from the wellspring of the human spirit. Post
believes that the privatization of religious expression, coupled
with the imposition of a secular monism, is a departure from true
liberal democracy in which citizens are free to assert themselves
in ways that manifest their full nature. Utilizing research in the
neurosciences, psychiatry, the social sciences, and evolutionary
psychology, he provides scientific information supporting the idea,
familiar to theories of natural law, that religious expression and
freedom are essential human goods. Post's perspective privileges no
particular religion, but rather asks that adherents to all faiths,
including secularism, be allowed to freely express their core
values in a civil, respectful, and public manner. Post calls for a
recovery of the full meaning of liberal democracy in all domains of
public life, so that we might again discover the value of freedom
of expression.
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