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Secularism and freedom of conscience /

"Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism--equal respect, and freedom of conscience--and argue that in our religiously diverse, politically interconnected world, secularism, properly understood, may offer the only...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Maclure, Jocelyn, 1973- (Author), Taylor, Charles, 1931- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Secularism
  • Moral pluralism, neutrality, and secularism
  • The principles of secularism
  • Regimes of secularism
  • Public sphere and private sphere
  • Religious symbols and rituals in the public space
  • Liberal-pluralist secularism: the case of Quebec
  • Freedom of conscience
  • The legal obligation for reasonable accommodation
  • Are religious beliefs "expensive tastes"? choices, circumstances, and individual responsibility
  • The subjective conception of freedom of religion and the individualization of belief
  • Does the legal obligation for accommodation favor religion? religious and secular convictions of conscience
  • The reasonable limits to freedom of conscience
  • The future of secularism.