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Religious exemptions have a long history in American law, but have become especially controversial over the last several years. The essays in this volume address the moral and philosophical issues that the legal practice of religious exemptions often raises.
List of contents
- Introduction Kevin Vallier and Michael Weber
- 1. Conscience, Religion, and Exemptions: An Egalitarian View Jocelyn Macclure
- 2. On the Constitutionality and Political Morality of Granting Conscience-Protecting Exemptions Only to Religious Beliefs Michael Perry
- 3. How Should We Treat Religion?: On Exemptions and Exclusions Kyle Swan
- 4. Contempt, Futility, and Exemption Simon May
- 5. Legal Exemptions for Religious Feelings Lucas Swaine
- 6. Political Liberalism and Religious Exemptions Christie Hartley and Lori Watson
- 7. Religious Accommodation, Social Justice, and Public Education Robert Audi
- 8. Scopes of Religious Exemptions: A Normative Map Perry Dane
- 9. Neutrality and the Religion Analogy Andrew Koppelman
- 10. Prioritizing Religion in Vaccine Exemption Policies Mark Navin
- 11. R v NS: The Niqab in Court and Lessons in Religious Exemptions Naama Ofrath
- 12. Religious Conscience and the Private Market Ted Poston
- 13. In Defense of the Sincerity Tes Elizabeth Platt and Kara Loewentheil
- 14. Insubstantial Burdens Chad Flanders
About the author
Kevin Vallier is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University, whose research focuses in political philosophy, normative ethics, political economy, and philosophy of religion. Vallier is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge, 2014) and Must Politics Be War?: In Defense of Public Reason Liberalism, forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Michael Weber is Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at Bowling Green State University. He has published on a wide variety of topics in ethics and political philosophy, including rational choice theory, ethics and the emotions, and egalitarianism. He has also co-edited with Christian Coons three edited volumes on topics in applied ethics: Paternalism (Cambridge University Press), Manipulation (Oxford University Press), and The Ethics of Self-Defense (Oxford University Press).
Summary
Religious exemptions have a long history in American law, but have become especially controversial over the last several years. The essays in this volume address the moral and philosophical issues that the legal practice of religious exemptions often raises.
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There is, in short, much in this book to stimulate the novice who is for the first time grappling with the question of religious exemptions and to challenge more experienced readers on this important subject.
