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Natural Law and Religious Freedom

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Natural Law and Religious Freedom book

The Role of Moral First Things in Grounding and Protecting the First Freedom

Natural Law and Religious Freedom

DOI link for Natural Law and Religious Freedom

Natural Law and Religious Freedom book

The Role of Moral First Things in Grounding and Protecting the First Freedom
ByJ. Daryl Charles
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 20 July 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597539
Pages 304 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315597539
SubjectsHumanities, Law, Politics & International Relations
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Charles, J. (2018). Natural Law and Religious Freedom. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315597539

Every successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive moral pessimism in the Western cultural context and wider contemporary geopolitical challenges. Those geopolitical challenges result from two significant and worrisome global developments – unprecedented violent persecution of religious minorities on several continents and a growing climate of secular hostility toward religious faith in Western societies. Natural Law and Religious Freedom aims to address what is relatively absent from the literature by demonstrating the importance of natural law ethics in both establishing and preserving basic human rights, of which religious freedom has pride of place.

Probing contemporary challenges to natural law thinking that are both internal and external to religious faith, and examining the character and constitution of natural law ethics, Natural Law and Religious Freedom will be of interest to theologians, ethicists and philosophers as well as policy analysts, politicians and activists who are concerned to anchor religious freedom and human rights policy considerations in an enduring way.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|43 pages

Introduction – religious freedom as the “first freedom”

What it is and why it matters
ByJ. Daryl Charles

chapter 2|40 pages

Natural law and our cultural and religious traditions

ByJ. Daryl Charles

chapter 3|40 pages

Religious freedom, natural law, and the American experiment

ByJ. Daryl Charles

chapter 4|29 pages

Second thoughts on “pluralism,” “neutrality,” and “tolerance”

ByJ. Daryl Charles

chapter 5|24 pages

Natural law, human dignity, and human moral obligation

ByJ. Daryl Charles

chapter 6|52 pages

The natural-law underpinnings of religious freedom – a closer look

Justice and neighbor-love in symbiosis
ByJ. Daryl Charles

chapter 7|21 pages

Human personhood, moral truth, and what is at stake

A test-case
ByJ. Daryl Charles

chapter 8|13 pages

Conclusion

ByJ. Daryl Charles
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