Freedom from Religion
Amos Guiora has produced a challenging and thought-provoking book that seeks to challenge conventional wisdom on the importance of religious freedom in a civil society faced with the challenges of religious extremism. The author draws extensively on his own background as a lawyer, academic, and memb...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2012, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 455-457 |
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| Summary: | Amos Guiora has produced a challenging and thought-provoking book that seeks to challenge conventional wisdom on the importance of religious freedom in a civil society faced with the challenges of religious extremism. The author draws extensively on his own background as a lawyer, academic, and member of the Israeli Defense Forces and on interviews conducted with hundreds of policy makers, analysts, and academics across the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Israel to argue in favor of restricting freedom of speech in the interests of national security. Guiora, who is not religious himself, targets religious extremism as “the threat that most endangers contemporary democratic society” (p. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/css074 |