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Proposes a new theoretical approach to religious liberty that both transcends and transforms current approaches to law and religion.
List of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Current approaches to religious rights; 3. The religiously orientated original position: presumptions and framework; 4. Purely self-regarding practices: religious acts with no effect on others or society; 5. Complex self-regarding practices: religious acts with an effect on others or society; 6. False other-regarding practices: religious directions to non-religious persons with no effect on others or society; 7. True other-regarding practices: religious directions to non-religious persons with an effect on others or society; 8. Conclusion.
About the author
S. I. Strong has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the United Kingdom as well as Georgetown Law Center and the University of Missouri in the United States. Professor Strong has written over 100 books and articles which have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian and Chinese, and has won numerous awards for scholarly writing, including Cambridge's esteemed Yorke Prize. Professor Strong is a former US Supreme Court Fellow and holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and a J.D. from Duke University, North Carolina, in addition to other degrees.
Summary
Through an international, comparative and interdisciplinary analysis, this book creates a new approach to religious liberty which aims to be acceptable to both religious and non-religious people living in religiously pluralist societies. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in the relationship between law and religion.
