New Publication on "Equality, Freedom, and Religion"

(14.02.2012) Roger Trigg, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, and Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Religion in Public Life, Kellogg College, Oxford, shows in his book "Equality, Freedom, and Religion" how freedom of religion is often trumped by other rights and therefore subject to erosion.

The review on Oup.com says: 

"Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes second place in the law of different countries to the pursuit of other social priorities. The right to freedom of belief and to manifest belief is written into all human rights charters. In the United States religious freedom is sometimes seen as 'the first freedom'. Yet increasingly in many jurisdictions in Europe and North America, religious freedom can all too easily be 'trumped' by other rights. ..."

 

Source, more information, order: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/Religion/?view=usa&ci=9780199576852

 

News story on Roger Trigg: http://www.christian.org.uk/news/oxford-professor-equality-trumping-religious-freedom/?e270112

 

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