RT Article
T1 Challenges to Religious Freedom in the USA: Some Lessons from Global Crises
JF Theological studies
VO 81
IS 3
SP 540
OP 559
A1 Hollenbach, David 1942-
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2020
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1747440248
AB Religious freedom is a focus of controversy in the United States today. The leaders of some religious communities, particularly Evangelicals and Roman Catholics, object to policies that challenge their beliefs, often their beliefs regarding sex and reproduction, by appealing to their right to religious freedom. This leads others to see religious freedom as a threat to moral changes they regard as progress. Religious liberty threatens to become a source of social division and conflict. This article analyzes these conflicts and considers how the USA can address them more effectively by reflecting on several international challenges to religious freedom. These global cases show that the religious freedom controversies in the USA today call both religious communities and those with secular worldviews to recognize that social unity and respect for freedom should go together. Social unity requires respect for freedom, including the freedom of those with whom one disagrees.
K1 Vatican II
K1 Supreme Court
K1 Religious Freedom
K1 Religious Conflict
K1 Persecution
K1 Justice
K1 John Courtney Murray
K1 Discrimination
K1 Culture Wars
DO 10.1177/0040563920953145