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Posts Tagged ‘pluralism’

Jeremy Menchik on Islam, Tolerance, Democracy, & Indonesia

Indonesia is both the world’s largest majority Muslim country and a consolidated democracy. Yet, unlike Western democracies, the Indonesian state pursues a policy of Godly nationalism that prioritizes religious belief over secularism. Despite this, the nation also exhibits a high level of religious toleration for various religious minorities including Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and various variants of Islam. Prof. Jeremy Menchik (Boston University) discusses this interesting balancing act and explains

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Paul Harvey on Religion in the American South

“The South” is commonly referred to as the Bible Belt in the United States today, and despite New England having a more explicit Christian identity during colonial times, the region from Virginia down to Florida and out to Texas has been shaped by religious dynamics from its most early days. Prof. Paul Harvey, professor of […]

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Keith Pavlischek on John Courtney Murray and Dignitatis Humanae

Tags: American Ecclesiastical Review, church-state relations, Dignitatis Humanae, Everson v Board of Education, John Courtney Murray, McCollum v Board of Education, modus vivendi approach, nativists, Pierce v Society of Sisters, pluralism, radical secularists, religious freedom, religious liberty, subsidiarity, The Problem of God, tolerance, Vatican Council II, We Hold These Truths

With the 50th anniversary of Dignitatis Humanae just past us, we visit with independent scholar Keith Pavlischek to discuss the life and thought of John Courtney Murray, a Jesuit priest who had a profound impact on how Catholics think about religious pluralism and liberty. We review the major document on religious freedom released at the Second Vatican Council and then discuss how Murray became involved in this debate after being prompted to think about religious freedom following a series of US Supreme Court decisions. We also reflect upon what Murray would have thought about our current church-state landscape.

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John Inazu on the Four Freedoms, Religious Liberty, and Assembly

Tags: Bob Jones University, Christian Legal Society v Martinez, confident pluralism, Employment Division v Smith, Equal Access Act, equal protection clause, First Amendment, four freedoms, free speech, freeedom of assembly, gay rights, Hosanna-Tabor, Jehovah's Witnesses, pluralism, religious freedom, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, religious liberty, Roberts v Jaycees, Rocky Barkington

Prof. John Inazu of Washington University Law School (St. Louis) explains how four of the main freedoms contained in the US Constitution’s First Amendment are interrelated and how a series of court cases during the latter half of the 20th century has boiled down these separate, but related, freedoms into a single free speech dimension. Our primary focus is on the relationship between the free expression clause and the freedom of assembly, though other issues come into play. We review important court cases from Roberts v Jaycees to Hosanna-Tabor.

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