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In The Crisis of Religious Liberty: Reflections from Law, History, and Catholic Social Thought, contributors consider a series of significant challenges to the freedom of religious conscience and expression in the United States today. Such challenges include the mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services concerning contraceptive, sterilization, and abortifacient coverage in health insurance plans; the question of health-care institutions requiring medical personnel to participate in morally objectionable procedures contrary to their religious beliefs; legal liability for individuals and businesses refusing on religious grounds to provide services for same-sex marriages; the prohibition on students from engaging in religious expression in public schools; the use of zoning laws to block Bible studies in private homes; and a variety of other issues that have surfaced in recent years with respect to religious freedom. While some argues that religious liberty extends no further than the freedom to worship, contributors suggest otherwise, noting that the exercise of religious liberty is greater than a highly restrictive definition of the notion of worship.
The Crisis of Religious Liberty comprises eight chapters and an afterword that explore the nature and basis of religious freedom in terms of Catholic social thought. They cover such topics as the Catholic Church's teachings from the Vatican II's Dignatis Humanae (Declaration on Religious Liberty), the decline of a historic rapprochement among different religious perspectives in the United States in the face of an increasingly aggressive secularism, perspectives on religious liberty from the founding of America, and how the religious liberty situation in the U.S. compares with the rest of the world.
The Crisis of Religious Liberty: Reflections from Law, History, and Catholic Social Thought should appeal to a variety of professionals as well as a scholars: lawyers and clergy, health care professionals and Catholic business owners, and researchers in the fields of religion, law, American politics, and sociology.
Contents
Foreword by Anne Hendershott
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Religious Liberty and the Human Good
Robert P. George
Chapter 2: A Culture of Religious Liberty
Gerard V. Bradley
Chapter 3: A Tale of Two (Religious) Freedoms in a Time Such as This
Randy Lee
Chapter 4: Thomas Jefferson's Philosophy of Religious Freedom: The Political Philosophy of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Vincent Phillip Muńoz
Chapter 5: "Marching in Opposite Directions": Religion and Liberty in the American Past and Present
Kevin Schmiesing
Chapter 6: "Engines of the Ruling Party": Political Correctness, 9/11, and the Politics of Culture Robert A. Destro
Chapter 7: From Articles of Peace to Kulturkampf: Catholicism, the HHS Mandate, and the Problem of Religious Pluralism in America
Kenneth L. Grasso
Chapter 8: The Human Right to Religious Liberty: How Does the U.S. Measure Up?
William L. Saunders
Afterword by Stephen M. Krason
About the Contributors
Index
