RT Book
T1 Religious speech and the quest for freedoms in the Anglo-American world
A1 Bird, Wendell 1954-
LA English
PP Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1845714946
AB 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.
SN 9781009090766
K1 Freedom Of Religion : English-speaking countries
K1 Freedom of speech : Religious aspects : Christianity : English-speaking countries
DO 10.1017/9781009090766