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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782081803321

Autore

Farrow Douglas

Titolo

Recognizing religion in a secular society [[electronic resource] ] : essays in pluralism, religion, and public policy / / edited by Douglas Farrow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-282-86304-5

9786612863042

0-7735-7236-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FarrowDouglas <1953->

Disciplina

322/.10971

Soggetti

Religion and state

Religion and politics

Cultural pluralism

Religion and law - Canada

Religion and science

Religion et État

Religion et politique

Pluralisme

Religion et droit

Religion et sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes papers first presented at the "Pluralism, Religion and Public Policy" conference, held Oct. 9-11, 2002 at McGill University.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Religion in the public realm /  El Hassan Bin Talal --  Freedom of religion and the rule of law : a Canadian perspective / Beverly McLachlin, Jean Bethke Elshtain --  Religion and the limits of liberal democracy /  William Galston --  Human dignity and the social contract /  David Novak -- Persons, politics, and a Catholic understanding of human rights / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Considering secularism / Iain T. Benson -- Birth, death, and technoscience : searching for values at the margins of life / Margaret Somerville -- Taking moral difference seriously : morality after the death of God / H. Tristram Engelhardt -- Of secularity and civil religion / Douglas Farrow.



Sommario/riassunto

Contributors include Iain T. Benson, executive director, Centre for Cultural Renewal; Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, University of Chicago; H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr, professor of philosophy, Rice University and professor emeritus, Baylor College of Medicine; Douglas Farrow; William Galston, professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland; The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC, chief justice of Canada; David Novak, J. Richard and Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies and professor of philosophy, University of Toronto; Margaret Somerville, Samuel Gale Professor of Law and Professor, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University; and Prince El Hassan bin Talal, chairman of the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.