Religious Speech and the Quest for Freedoms in the Anglo American Worl

"The successful demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms - freedoms of speech and press, rights for the criminally accused and for higher education, and freedoms from slavery and discrimination - were principally made by religious speech based on Judeo-Christian faiths, not by secular speech based on other belief systems"--

List of contents

Introduction: legacies of Judeo-Christian religion; 1. The legacy of freedom of speech; 2. The legacy of freedom of press; 3. The legacy of freedoms for the criminally accused; 4. The legacy of higher education; 5. The legacy of abolition of slavery; 6. The legacy of the civil rights movement; Epilogue: legacies of Judeo-Christian faiths and religious speech.

About the author

Wendell Bird is the author of three other books on freedoms of speech and press: Press and Speech under Assault: The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent (Oxford University Press, 2016); Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 (Harvard University Press, 2020); and The Revolution in Freedoms of Press and Speech: From Blackstone to the First Amendment and Fox's Libel Act (Oxford University Press, 2020). He earned a D.Phil. in legal history from the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He is a Visiting Scholar at Emory University School of Law.

Summary

The successful demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms - freedoms of speech and press, rights for the criminally accused and for higher education, and freedoms from slavery and discrimination - were principally made by religious speech based on Judeo-Christian faiths, not by secular speech based on other belief systems.

Product details

• Authors: Wendell Bird, Wendell (Emory University Bird
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9781316514733
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51473-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, European History, RELIGION / History, History of Religion, British & Irish history, History of the Americas, Human rights, civil rights, Freedom Of Information & Freedom Of Speech, Religious freedom / freedom of worship