Why Tolerate Religion? : : Updated Edition / / Brian Leiter.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Leiter, Brian,
• TeilnehmendeR: Leiter, Brian.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Updated edition with a New Preface
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the Paperback Edition --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter I. Toleration --; Chapter II. Religion --; Chapter III. Why Tolerate Religion? --; Chapter IV. Why Respect Religion? --; Chapter V. The Law of Religious Liberty in a Tolerant Society --; Notes --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400852345; 9783110665925
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400852345?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Brian Leiter.

This provocative book addresses one of the most enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory-why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why are religious obligations that conflict with the law accorded special toleration while other obligations of conscience are not? In Why Tolerate Religion?, Brian Leiter shows why our reasons for tolerating religion are not specific to religion but apply to all claims of conscience, and why a government committed to liberty of conscience is not required by the principle of toleration to grant exemptions to laws that promote the general welfare.