1st Edition

Liberalism’s Religion Cécile Laborde and Her Critics

Edited By Aurelia Bardon, Jeffrey W. Howard Copyright 2020
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

How should liberalism understand – and deal with – religion? Cécile Laborde offers powerful new answers in her book Liberalism’s Religion ; this collection subjects that theory to critical scrutiny from an array of scholars, thereby advancing the scholarly debate. Religion has recently become the object of a significant and growing literature in legal and political philosophy, for example:... Read more
Introduction: Laborde, liberalism, and religion, Aurélia Bardon and Jeffrey W. Howard
1. Laborde’s religion, Sune Lægaard
2. Is epistemic accessibility enough? Same-sex marriage, tradition, and the Bible, Aurélia Bardon
3. Defending broad neutrality, Jeffrey W. Howard
4. On Liberalism’s Religion, Jean L. Cohen
5. Liberalism and religion: The plural grounds of separation, Chiara Cordelli
6. The integrity of religious believers, Paul Bou-Habib
7. Individual integrity, freedom of association, and religious exemption, Peter Jones
8. Religion and discrimination: extending the ‘disaggregative approach’, Daniel Sabbagh
9. Three cheers for liberal Modesty, Cécile Laborde

Biography

Aurélia Bardon is Junior Professor in Political Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research focuses on public justification, religion, secularism, and liberal neutrality.

Jeffrey W. Howard is Associate Professor of Political Theory at University College London, UK. He writes on free speech, criminal punishment, and democratic theory.