Part I, 2 Christian Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahdar Rex ◽  
Leigh Ian
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Universal Principle ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Christian Thought

This chapter examines various theological, specifically Christian, justifications for religious freedom. For long periods Christians gave vent to their unswerving conviction that they alone heard from God, and all other faiths were demonic. However, Christian thought eventually came round to the notion that the principle of religious liberty was right. It was implied in the Scriptures. A series of overlapping convictions comprise the contemporary Christian case for the freedom of religion. These are summarized in the form of eight principles: the principle of voluntariness; the Christological injunction; the persecution injunction; the fallibility principle; the eschatological or providential confidence; the ecumenical or universal principle; the principle of the unrestricted conscience; and the dual authority principle.

The Place of Religious Freedom in the Structure of Peacebuilding

2015 ◽  
pp. 280-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Cole Durham ◽  
Elizabeth A. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
The Right

This chapter analyzes the role that the fundamental right to freedom of religion or belief plays in ending or averting religious warfare, and in providing necessary footings for crystallizing peace out of conflict. After stressing that there is a tendency to lay exaggerated blame for many conflicts on religion, the chapter explores the Lockean insight that under certain circumstances, religious pluralism can serve as a stabilizing factor in society if states protect the right to religious diversity instead of imposing homogeneity. International limitation clauses on the scope of religious liberty play an important filtering role in promoting the positive contributions religion makes to society, while constraining negative religious effects. The analysis argues that secularity, understood as a framework welcoming religious pluralism, rather than secularism, as an ideology advocating secularization as an end in itself, is most conducive to the peacebuilding potential of religious freedom.

Religious Liberty in Indonesia and the Rights of “Deviant” Sects

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfitri
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Civil And Political Rights

AbstractAlthough Indonesia has acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and freedom of religion is a mandate of the 1945 Constitution, there is a significant difference between the promise and the practice of religious liberty, especially regarding the rights of sects in Indonesia. The article explores this theme in the context of the Congregation of Ahmadiyah Indonesia, a minority Islamic sect which is not considered as an agama, or official religion, as a case study. This designation has had various discriminatory effects on its adherents, which waters down significantly the guarantee of religious freedom in Indonesia.

Historical Hinterlands for Religious Freedom in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-155
Author(s):  
Mark Hill QC
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
The United Kingdom

The peculiar and particular manner in which freedom of religion is promoted and protected in the United Kingdom owes much to the nation’s history. This article offers a highly selective consideration of some of the incidents of history which have shaped or foreshadowed the lived reality of freedom of religion in Britain today. It traces key episodes over past centuries, crudely categorised as the Seven Ages of Religious Liberty.

Neutrality and the Religion Analogy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Vallier ◽  
Michael Weber
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Freedom Of Religion ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
The Core ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Conception Of The Good

Neutralitarian liberalism, which holds that the state should be neutral toward controversial conceptions of the good, is often defended as a generalization from religious liberty—a more abstract statement of the principle that supports the tradition of religious freedom. The analogy misapprehends the core case upon which it is based. The American tradition of freedom of religion itself rests on a controversial conception of the good: the idea that religion is valuable and that legal rules should be crafted for the purpose of protecting that value. Disestablishment entails a kind of neutrality toward certain contested conceptions of the good. This, however, is not neutralitarian liberalism and in fact is inconsistent with it.

CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT

1979 ◽  
Vol XLVII (2) ◽  
pp. 336-b-337
Author(s):  
Jack C. Verheyden
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Christian Thought

Lachiri v Belgium and Bans on Wearing Islamic Dress in the Courtroom: An Emerging Trend

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-53
Author(s):  
Kaushik Paul
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Recent Case ◽  
European Convention ◽  
European Court ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
Islamic Dress

In recent years, the wearing of Islamic dress in public spaces and elsewhere has generated widespread controversy all over Europe. The wearing of the hijab and other Islamic veils has been the subject of adjudication before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on many occasions. The most recent case before the ECtHR as to the prohibition on wearing the hijab is Lachiri v Belgium. In this case, the ECtHR held that a prohibition on wearing the hijab in the courtroom constitutes an infringement of Article 9 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which guarantees the right to freedom of religion or belief. From the perspective of religious freedom, the ruling of the Strasbourg Court in Lachiri is very significant for many reasons. The purpose of this comment is critically to analyse the ECtHR's decision in Lachiri from the standpoint of religious liberty.

scholarly journals Litigating the Limits of Religion: Minority and Majority Concerns about Institutional Religious Liberty in India

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 400
Author(s):  
Chad M. Bauman
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
Religious Liberty ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Considerable Effort

Western religious liberty advocates tend to focus on restrictions placed on minority religious communities, particularly when advocating abroad, that is, outside of the country in which they reside. In all contemporary democracies, however, adherents of religious majorities also express concerns about religious liberty. For this reason, the article considers both minority and majority concerns about institutional religious freedom in India. This essay provides an overview of religious freedom issues, with a particular focus on institutions, though, as I acknowledge, it is not always simple to distinguish individual from institutional matters of religious freedom. After describing various minority and majority concerns about institutional religious freedom in India, and demonstrating that many of them are related to the Indian government’s distinctive approach to managing religion and religious institutions, I make the argument that while some cross-cutting issues provide the possibility of interreligious understanding and solidarity in matters of religious liberty advocacy, such solidarity will not emerge without considerable effort because of the fact that debates about religious liberty in India often fundamentally involve debates about the very nature of religion itself, and these debates tend to divide rather than unite India’s majority and minority religious communities.

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