RT Article
T1 Respect, Coercion, and Religious Reasons
JF Journal of religious ethics
VO 44
IS 3
SP 445
OP 471
A1 Friberg-Fernros, Henrik
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1580209548
AB It is often assumed that people of faith should not endorse a law for religious reasons, since such an endorsement is considered to be disrespectful. Such a position is increasingly opposed by scholars who argue that such demands unjustifiably force people of faith to compromise their religious ideals. In order to defend their opposition to such demands, some scholars have invoked thought experiments as reductio arguments against the claim that endorsing laws dependent on religious reasons is necessarily disrespectful. I argue that these attempts have failed, and present an alternative thought experiment that demonstrates that such a law is not necessarily disrespectful. Because I conclude that previously proposed principles cannot defend this conclusion, I defend an alternative way of accommodating this intuition; a post-secular deliberative approach based on the principle of double effect.
K1 Christopher Eberle
K1 Coercion
K1 Post-secular
K1 Public justification
K1 RELIGIOUS REASONS
K1 Respect
DO 10.1111/jore.12149