A Closed Marketplace: Religious Claims in the Public Square

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-222
Author(s):  
Terrence Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Public Domain ◽  
Marketplace Of Ideas ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Religious Convictions ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Made In

AbstractThis article argues that the rules governing religious contributions to public debates are unnecessarily restrictive and grounded in a faulty understanding of the nature of all truth claims. After critically assessing the current limits on arguments made in the public domain, this study analyses the Ramsey Colloquium’s statement on ‘The Homosexual Movement’ as a paradigmatic illustration of the difficulties that accompany the public proclamation of religious convictions. It suggests that the rules currently governing cultural conversations marginalize distinctive religious contributions and call into question the reality of a genuine marketplace of ideas.

Copyright and the Commons

2017 ◽  
pp. 106-126
Author(s):  
Erika Balsom
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Fair Use ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Digital Reproduction ◽  
Cultural Commons ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

This chapter interrogates how artists’ moving image has grappled with the increased ridigification of copyright that has occurred over the last two decades. Many artists champion the freedom to reuse copyrighted materials, but fail to interrogate the particular circumstances that it make possible for them to do so without retribution, while simultaneously avoiding an engagement with the significant encroachments on fair use and the public domain that have been implemented as part of new copyright legislation that seeks to control the unruliness of digital reproduction. As a counterpoint to such positions, this chapter examines Ben White and Eileen Simpson’s Struggle in Jerash (2009), a work made by repurposing a public domain film of the same title made in 1957 in Jordan. Simpson and White contest the increasing privatization of visual culture, insisting on the wealth of the cultural commons precisely as it is under threat.

The (Lack of) Impact of the ICTY on the Public Memory of the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina

2020 ◽  
pp. 559-570
Author(s):  
Jovana Mihajlović Trbovc
Keyword(s):  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
International Criminal Tribunal ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Post War

This chapter tackles relations between facts established at the Tribunal and acknowledgement of these in the public domain of post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), where three ethnically defined and mutually contesting interpretations dominate the public forum. Examining how this problem unfolds, this chapter follows the development of the public memory about the war. It intersects with the relevant International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) jurisprudence, aiming to detect potential changes in the dominant narrative. It analyses public debates whether the war was a product of Serbian aggression or a civil war within Bosnia; whether ‘ethnic cleansing’ was pre-planned by the Serbian side or an inevitable consequence of the war (examined through the Prijedor case); whether genocide was the overall aim of the Serbian side or whether it took place only in Srebrenica; and whether the Croatian side was a defender of, or aggressor in BiH (examined through the Ahmići case).

Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate

2000 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 486
Author(s):  
Philip L. Quinn ◽  
Robert Audi ◽  
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Keyword(s):  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Religious Convictions

Colloquium Response

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Kenny
Keyword(s):  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Religious Truth ◽  
Successful Theory ◽  
Error Check ◽  
Truth Claims ◽  
Is Theory ◽  
New Atheism

The problem for Study of Religions (sor) in the academy is the dearth of successful theory-as-explanation in the field and the consequential domination of the public square by other voices namely theology, apologetics, humanist study that privileges belief and New Atheism. There is theory-as-critique aplenty and it is applied to both religious truth claims and to explanatory theories about religion. Scholars ofsorhave the critical tools, methods, expertise and weight of scholarship to error check and to disprove naturalistic explanations but finding explanatory ground to stand on is very hard indeed. This piece argues that it is important to renew and revitalise the search for explanation.

Religion in the Public Square: The Place of Religious Convictions in Political Debate.

1999 ◽  
Vol 108 (2) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
Kent Greenawalt ◽  
Robert Audi ◽  
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Keyword(s):  
Political Debate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Religious Convictions

From the Sacristy to the Public Square The Public Character of Theology

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Júlio Paulo Tavares Zabatiero
Keyword(s):  
Christian Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Democratic Societies ◽  
Public Character

Abstract This article is a study of the public role of Christian theology in contemporary democratic societies. It focuses on the role of theologians as intellectuals in the public square, as defenders of values like justice, democracy and peace. After a brief reflection on Brazilian experiences of the presence of Christians in public debates, it discusses the role of intellectuals such as Habermas, Bourdieu, Said, Bauman and others.

This Isn’t 1964 Anymore—Or Is It?

2020 ◽  
pp. 181-210
Author(s):  
Linda C. McClain
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
General Rule ◽  
Business Owners ◽  
Gay Marriage ◽  
Majority Opinion ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civil Rights Act ◽  
Public Square ◽  
Made In

This chapter analyzes Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which held that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed animosity and hostility toward the religion of baker Jack Phillips. This case shows that rhetoric matters: the commissioners drew criticism for their comments about appealing to religion to justify discrimination. The chapter analyzes the arguments made in Masterpiece, highlighting competing appeals to Obergefell and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Kennedy’s majority opinion enlisted civil rights precedent Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises on the general rule that religious objections to gay marriage do not allow business owners to deny service to customers protected by public accommodations law. Masterpiece indicated guidelines for resolving future cases. The concurring opinion by Justice Bosson in Elane Photography, LLC v. Willock provides a valuable model: it speaks respectfully about religious beliefs, while also explaining what tolerance demands in the public square as the “price of citizenship.”

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