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Perhaps no other city has been spoken of as often or as
passionately as Jerusalem. This book brings together the
kaleidoscopic impressions and perspectives of a representative
group of those who have responded to the wonder of the Holy City
from the biblical period to the present: Jews, Christians, and
Muslims; pilgrims as well as sceptics, travellers, conquerors,
scholars, and statesmen. The work gives expression to the
discordant notes of contrasting perspectives about the meaning of
Jerusalem. At the same time, it reflects the citys unique
distinction as the embodiment of mankinds highest ethical and
spiritual aspirations.
Are humans naturally predisposed to religion and supernatural
beliefs? If so, does this naturalness provide a moral foundation
for religious freedom? This volume offers a cross-disciplinary
approach to these questions, engaging in a range of contemporary
debates at the intersection of religion, cognitive science,
sociology, anthropology, political science, epistemology, and moral
philosophy. The contributors to this original and important volume
present individual, sometimes opposing points of view on the
naturalness of religion thesis and its implications for religious
freedom. Topics include the epistemological foundations of
religion, the relationship between religion and health, and a
discussion of the philosophical foundations of religious freedom as
a natural, universal right, drawing implications for the normative
role of religion in public life. By challenging dominant
intellectual paradigms, such as the secularization thesis and the
Enlightenment view of religion, the volume opens the door to a
powerful and provocative reconceptualization of religious freedom.
In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality
has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound
philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the
meaning and reach of religious liberty. Nowhere has this conflict
been more salient than in the debate between claims of religious
freedom, on one hand, and equal rights claims made on the behalf of
members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
community, on the other. As new rights for LGBT individuals have
expanded in liberal democracies across the West, longstanding
rights of religious freedom - such as the rights of religious
communities to adhere to their fundamental teachings, including
protecting the rights of conscience; the rights of parents to
impart their religious beliefs to their children; and the liberty
to advance religiously-based moral arguments as a rationale for
laws - have suffered a corresponding decline. Timothy Samuel Shah,
Thomas F. Farr, and Jack Friedman's volume, Religious Freedom and
Gay Rights brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on
religion, morality, politics, and law to analyze the emerging
tensions between religious freedom and gay rights in three key
geographic regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, and
continental Europe. What implications will expanding regimes of
equality rights for LGBT individuals have on religious freedom in
these regions? What are the legal and moral frameworks that govern
tensions between gay rights and religious freedom? How are these
tensions illustrated in particular legal, political, and policy
controversies? And what is the proper way to balance new claims of
equality against existing claims for freedom of religious groups
and individuals? Religious Freedom and Gay Rights offers several
explorations of these questions.
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