The Limits of Religious Tolerance

"Religion's place in American public life has never been fixed. As new communities have arrived, as old traditions have fractured and reformed, as cultural norms have been shaped by shifting economic structures and the advance of science ... the claims posited by religious traditions--and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Levinovitz, Alan, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst, Massachusetts : Amherst College Press 2016
[2016]
Colección:Public works
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009640135406719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Tolerance and respect
  • When religious beliefs are false (and some of them must be!)
  • The value of intolerance
  • Religious intolerance and the ends of higher education
  • Appendix: Majority opinions in two cases. West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette (319 U.S. 624) decided: June 14, 1943 [Majority opinion] ; Keyishian, et al., v. Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, et al. (385 U.S. 589) decided: January 23, 1967 [Majority opinion].