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Religious Speech and the Quest for Freedoms in the Anglo-American World (Hardcover)
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Religious Speech and the Quest for Freedoms in the Anglo-American World (Hardcover)
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In the secular, contemporary world, many people question the
relevance of religion. Many also wonder whether
religiously-informed speech and beliefs should be tolerated in the
public square, and whether religions hinder freedom. In this
volume, Wendell Bird reminds us that our basic freedoms are the
important legacies of religious speech arising from the
Judeo-Christian tradition. Bird demonstrates that religious speech,
rather than secular or irreligious speech based on other belief
systems, historically made the demands and justifications for at
least six critical freedoms: speech and press, rights for the
criminally accused, higher education, emancipation from slavery,
and freedom from discrimination. Bringing an historically-informed
approach to the development of some of the most important freedoms
in the Anglo-American world, this volume provides a new framework
for our understanding of the origins of crucial freedoms. It also
serves as a powerful reminder of an aspect of history that is
steadily being forgotten or overlooked-that many of our basic
freedoms are the historical legacies of religious speech arising
from Judeo-Christian faiths.
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