LGBT+ equality, religious freedom and government‐funded faith‐based religiously affiliated educational workplaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Ezzy ◽  
Bronwyn Fielder ◽  
Angela Dwyer ◽  
Louise Richardson‐Self
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Faith Based

The Implications of Religious Liberty

2017 ◽  
pp. 143-162
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
The Political ◽  
Marriage Equality ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
Public Discussion ◽  
The Public ◽  
Faith Based

The political terrain surrounding the legalization of same-sex marriage and the need to accommodate individual's faith based objections have been part of the public discussion since the passage of initial marriage equality statutes. These exemptions played an important part in the bill's passage and have gone largely unquestioned from proponents of marriage equality. This chapter discusses the heightened lawmaking efforts by opponents insisting on broad protection measures for religious claims based on opposition directed towards homosexuality. This Chapter discusses the resulting tension between religious freedom and marriage equality.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Gregorio Bettiza
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Regime Complex ◽  
Religion And State ◽  
The Cold War

Since the end of the Cold War religion has increasingly become an organized subject and object of American foreign policy. This has been notable with the emergence of four religious foreign policy regimes—International Religious Freedom, Faith-Based Foreign Aid, Muslim and Islamic Interventions, and Religious Engagement—which together constitute an American foreign policy regime complex on religion. The introduction poses the book’s three guiding questions. First, why and how did these different, yet closely related, religious foreign policy regimes emerge? Second, have the boundaries between religion and state been redefined by these regimes, and if so, how? Third, what are the global effects of the growing entanglement between faith and American foreign policy? The chapter introduces the concepts and arguments that are central to answering these questions. It also highlights the contributions made to the existing literature, discusses some definitional and methodological issues, and presents the plan of the book.

Placing Faith in Development: How Moscow's Religious Communities Contribute to a More Civil Society

Slavic Review ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Alternative Vision

The development-oriented work of Moscow's religious communities is examined in this article, with a focus on how a core group of faith organizations present themselves as offering an alternative vision of intervention and improvement that seeks to protect Russian citizens from what proponents suggest are the shortcomings of previous democratizing and civil society ventures. Staff and supporters within Moscow's faith-based assistance sphere contend that religiously affiliated assistance organizations are successful, not only because they parallel secular development programs in promoting values and practices of capitalism, democracy, and global human rights, but more importantly because they also claim to move beyond these approaches to tend to the well-being and transformation of the entire human being. Consequentiy, proponents argue that faith-based organizations are more attuned to values of humane treatment and civility, thereby making them better positioned to build a new Russian society that brings citizens and the state together in productive and caring relationships. Ultimately, this attention to the perspectives and ideals of religiously oriented development organizations provides a different vantage point for reconsidering the promises and consequences of Russia's neoliberal and democratizing transformations.

Religiously Affiliated Charter Schools

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan C. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Charter Schools ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
State Law ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Charter School Movement ◽  
School Movement

Charter schools have grown significantly since 1991, when Minnesota became the first state to enact charter school legislation. Charter schools are public schools, as defined by federal and state law. Thus, when it comes to issues of religion and education, charter schools are bound by the same laws and legal precedents as public schools. As a result, local developers and state chartering agencies that seek to establish religious or faith-based charter schools are likely to fail in state and federal courts. This chapter examines this legal framework in the larger charter school movement.

Faith-Based Foreign Aid

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-136
Author(s):  
Gregorio Bettiza
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Christian Organizations ◽  
Parallel Processes ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
President Bush ◽  
Over Time

The chapter identifies the constellation of desecularizing actors embedded in postsecular processes responsible for the emergence of the Faith-Based Foreign Aid regime under President Bush in the early 2000s. It examines the continuation and evolution of the regime over time and shows how this has depended on the type of desecularizing actors that have had access to the Bush and Obama administrations. It argues that the regime generates considerable forms of institutional desecularization, sustained by parallel processes of ideological and state-normative desecularization. In terms of global effects, the regime is potentially shaping global religious landscapes primarily by supporting Christian organizations and communities, and contributing to processes of religionization especially through mechanisms of elevation. The conclusion summarizes the chapter’s findings, compares the regime to the International Religious Freedom regime, and considers developments occurring under President Trump.

Conclusion

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa L. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Compassionate Care ◽  
Religiously Affiliated ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Future

This final chapter returns to the original themes of the book by considering how members of Moscow’s community of religiously affiliated assistance providers grapple with the uncertainties that they encounter on a daily basis, with specific attention to how members of this community struggle to maintain both the human and the humane in their social justice work. As the experiences documented here show, within the faith-based context, assistance encounters are never fully oriented either to the objective pole of human rights or to the subjective pole of compassion and empathy. As such, these struggles reveal that the future-oriented optimism made possible by the affective labor of faith belies the inherent precarity of faith. Yet it is this precarious state that makes possible the intersubjectivity of compassionate care, whereby those who provide assistance and those who receive it engage one another fully as humans.

Part I, 3 Liberal Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahdar Rex ◽  
Leigh Ian
Keyword(s):  
John Rawls ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Public Reason ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
The Good Life ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
State Neutrality ◽  
Litmus Test

This chapter discusses liberal political thought and its understanding and treatment of religion. Section II begins by briefly outlining the nature and character of liberalism. The premise is that liberalism is the principal philosophical foundation for law in modern liberal democracy. Our contemporary notions of ‘religious freedom’ are ones that have been indubitably shaped by liberal attitudes to religion, faith communities, and the call of conscience. The chapter then turns to the liberal claim of neutrality between competing conceptions of the good life. Is liberalism as impartial as it purports to be? What does state neutrality towards religion in practice actually require? This chapter also examines the privatization of religious (and other) beliefs in a liberal polity, and considers a leading liberal litmus test for public policy — John Rawls' concept of ‘public reason’. Section III analyses the principal secular liberal justifications for religious freedom. It argues that unless we know why religious liberty is worth protecting, our ability to deal with new and increasingly insistent faith-based claims for legal recognition and protection will be hampered.

scholarly journals U.S. Foreign Policy and the Defense of Religious Freedom in India

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina M. Teater
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Advocacy Effort ◽  
Foreign Governments ◽  
The Government ◽  
Compassion International

The defense of religious freedom around the world is a U.S. foreign policy initiative upheld by successive administrations since the passing of the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA). Supported by various religious constituencies that advocate for the freedom of religion of like-minded individuals across borders, the U.S. government engages with foreign governments, human rights groups, and NGOs to preserve an individual’s right to freedom of religion or belief. Their results, however, are mixed, especially in diverse contexts where religious rights are deeply contested. This paper explores the advocacy effort in response to the Government of India’s crackdown on the inflow of foreign funds to NGOs, many of which are faith-based. Using the revocation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) license of faith-based NGO Compassion International as a case study, this paper finds that U.S. involvement in defense of religious freedom meets counter-narratives. These counter-narratives include the preservation of state sovereignty, the protection of national interest, and the privileging of religious tolerance over religious freedom.

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