Why Tolerate Religion?
Suppose a fourteen-year-old boy comes to middle school wearing a dagger on his belt. Normally, the dagger would be confiscated and the boy reprimanded or suspended (or worse). But should the boy be allowed to keep the dagger on him if the dagger is no mere dagger but a central symbol of his family&#...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 372-374 |
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| Summary: | Suppose a fourteen-year-old boy comes to middle school wearing a dagger on his belt. Normally, the dagger would be confiscated and the boy reprimanded or suspended (or worse). But should the boy be allowed to keep the dagger on him if the dagger is no mere dagger but a central symbol of his family's religious beliefs? (It is part of the Sikh religion that men should wear daggers.) Would it make any difference if the dagger did not represent the boy's religious beliefs but just his rural upbringing and family tradition?, Brian Leiter, known for his philosophical writing on Friedrich Nietzsche as well as his scholarship on legal realism, turns in this short, elegantly written book to questions of religious toleration. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csu010 |