Government Support for Religious Practice

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Author/contributor
Title
Government Support for Religious Practice
Abstract
Freedom of conscience or religion is no longer protected as the most effective way for the individual to discover spiritual truth, or as necessary to his meaningful commitment to that truth, or because human conscience, the capacity to recognize truth and right, is a divine endowment. The public justification for religious freedom is now framed in more secular terms. In the contemporary context of spiritually diverse community, the protection of religious belief or commitment is most often said to be based on the value of individual judgment or autonomy. What the individual chooses, what she judges to be right or true, is deserving of respect because it has been chosen, because it is an expression of her autonomy or the outcome of her independent judgment.
Genre
SSRN Scholarly Paper
Archive ID
1866489
Place
Rochester, NY
Date
2008
Accessed
9/10/23, 8:16 PM
Language
en
Library Catalog
Social Science Research Network
Citation
Moon, R. (2008). Government Support for Religious Practice (SSRN Scholarly Paper 1866489). https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1866489
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