Religious conscience, the state, and the law: historical contexts and contemporary significance
Introduction / Harold Coward and John McLaren -- Willing to suffer : law and religious conscience in seventeenth-century England / Justin A.I. Champion -- Excommunicating the governor's wife : religious dissent in the Puritan colonies before the era of rights consciousness / Cornelia Hughes Day...
| Summary: | Introduction / Harold Coward and John McLaren -- Willing to suffer : law and religious conscience in seventeenth-century England / Justin A.I. Champion -- Excommunicating the governor's wife : religious dissent in the Puritan colonies before the era of rights consciousness / Cornelia Hughes Dayton -- Enlightenment and conscience / Martin Fitzpatrick -- Speech for the soul : religion, conscience, and free speech in antebellum America / Elizabeth B. Clark -- Jewish nongovernmental organizations, religious human rights, and public advocacy in the twentieth century / Irwin Cotler -- Communal property and freedom of religion : Lakeside Colony of Hutterian Brethren v. Hofer / Alvin Esau -- The Doukhobor belief in individual faith and conscience and the demands of the secular state / John McLaren -- The law and reconstituted Christianity : the case of the Mormons / Carol Weisbrod -- Anti-semitism and the growth of rights consciousness in Western Europe and North America / Phyllis M. Senese -- The struggle to preserve aboriginal spiritual teaching and practices / James [Sakeji] Youngblood Henderson -- Expansion and constriction of religion : the paradox of the Indian secular state / Robert D. Baird -- Religion and public education in Canada after the charter / Elizabeth J. Shilton -- The cultural and religious heritage : perspectives on the Muslim experience / Azim A. Naji. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| Physical Description: | Online Ressource (vii, 247 p.) |
| ISBN: | 0585059993 |