scholarly journals Liberal Individualist Monism and the Future of Religious Freedom

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Robert P. Hunt ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
The Future

How the Interests of Children Limit the Religious Freedom of Parents

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Weinstock
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Family Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future

This chapter argues that parents have a right to raise their children according to the tenets of the religions that they profess. That right can be seen as grounded in the interest that children have in enjoying the kind of intimacy within the family context that is facilitated by participation in practices and rituals rooted in comprehensive conceptions of the good. It also argues, however, that children have a right to be raised in a manner that does not foreclose their future autonomy. These two rights can be reconciled if we distinguish acceptable and unacceptably asymmetrical upbringings. Parents can incline their children toward certain values and practices in accordance with their comprehensive conceptions, on condition that they also provide children with the conditions that will allow them to make autonomous decisions in the future.

scholarly journals DIGNITATIS HUMANAE, THE FUTURE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND THE GLOBAL COMMOM GOOD

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 277
Author(s):  
Linda Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Dignitatis Humanae ◽  
The Future ◽  
Global And Local

ABSTRACT: Our global and local conversations about human dignity and flourishing are shaped by the irreducible plurality of human experience, including religious experience and our political cultures must have the capacity to facilitate intercultural and interreligious exchange. In this context it is more vital than ever that religious traditions, including Catholicism, are to the fore as we go about the business of building a politics focused on the global common good. From the perspective of Catholicism, the contribution of Dignitatis humanae has yet to be properly realised, not only in respect to respect for religious pluralism, but more especially in respect to ethical pluralism.RESUMO: Nossas conversações locais e globais sobre a dignidade humana e a prosperidade são determinadas pela irredutível pluralidade da experiência humana, inclusive a experiência religiosa e nossas culturas políticas devem ter a capacidade de facilitar os intercâmbios interculturais e interreligiosos. Neste contexto, é mais vital do que nunca que as tradições religiosas, inclusive o Catolicismo, estejam em primeiro plano, pois nosso interesse é a construção de políticas centradas no bem comum. Na perspectiva do Catolicismo, a contribuição de Dignitatis Humanae ainda não se realizou adequadamente, não só no que se refere ao pluralismo religioso, mas especialmente no diz respeito ao pluralismo ético.

Liberal Assumptions in Section 116 Cases and Implications for Religious Freedom

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Deagon
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
State Power ◽  
The State ◽  
High Court ◽  
Free Exercise ◽  
Sharp Distinction ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The Future ◽  
High Court Of Australia

It is well known that the ‘free exercise’ and ‘establishment’ clauses in Section 116 of the Australian Constitution have been interpreted narrowly by the High Court of Australia. However, there has been limited examination of theoretical assumptions or perspectives which may have consciously or unconsciously informed this interpretation. This article argues the High Court has adopted liberal assumptions about the nature of religion and its relationship to the state in the Section 116 cases. These liberal assumptions are a sharp distinction between ‘private’ religious and ‘public’ non-religious exercise, that religious freedom is subject to state determinations of what is required for neutrality between religions, and religious freedom is subject to state determinations of what is required for social order. The article proceeds to consider the implications of these assumptions for Section 116 cases in terms of a narrowing of religious freedom and a broadening of state power, and suggests awareness of these issues may produce a more nuanced approach to Section 116 in the future.

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