Getting Over Equality : : A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America /

Getting Over Equality : : A Critical Diagnosis of Religious Freedom in America / / Steven D. Smith.

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Questions of religious freedom continue to excite passionate public debate. Proposals involving school prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools and courtrooms perennially spur controversy. But there is also a sense that the prevailing discourse is exhausted, that no one seems to kno...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Smith, Steven D.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Critical America ; 5
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Beyond Failure
  • PART I HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION?
  • 1 Blooming Confusion Religious Equality in the “Age of Madison”
  • 2 Religion, Democracy, and Autonomy: A Political Parable
  • 3 Is a Theory of Religious Freedom Possible?
  • PART II WHAT SHALL WE DO? (or How the Supreme Court Can Stop Making Things Worse)
  • 4 Unprincipled Religious Freedom
  • 5 The Unhappy Demise of the Doctrine of Tolerance
  • 6 Demons in the Discourse
  • PART III CAN FAITH TOLERATE?
  • 7 The (Compelling?) Case for Religious Intolerance
  • 8 Theism and Tolerance
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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