In the secular, contemporary world, many people question the relevance of religion. Many also wonder whether religiously-informed speech and beliefs should be tolerated in the public square, and whether religions hinder freedom. In this volume, Wendell Bird reminds us that our basic freedoms are the important legacies of religious speech arising from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Bird demonstrates that religious speech, rather than secular or irreligious speech based on other belief systems, historically made the demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms: speech and press, rights for the criminally accused, higher education, emancipation from slavery, and freedom from discrimination. Bringing an historically-informed approach to the development of some of the most important freedoms in the Anglo-American world, this volume provides a new framework for our understanding of the origins of crucial freedoms. It also serves as a powerful reminder of an aspect of history that is steadily being forgotten or overlooked-that many of our basic freedoms are the historical legacies of religious speech arising from Judeo-Christian faiths.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Illustrationen
Worked examples or Exercises
Dateigröße
ISBN-13
978-1-009-09332-3 (9781009093323)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Introduction: legacies of Judeo-Christian religion; 1. The legacy of freedom of speech; 2. The legacy of freedom of press; 3. The legacy of freedoms for the criminally accused; 4. The legacy of higher education; 5. The legacy of abolition of slavery; 6. The legacy of the civil rights movement; Epilogue: legacies of Judeo-Christian faiths and religious speech.
