Religious Freedom and Gay Rights: Emerging Conflicts in the United States and Europe

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Jack Friedman Timothy Samuel Shah

Religious Freedom and Gay Rights

Emerging Conflicts in the United States and Europe

Jack Friedman, Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr

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Oxford University Press Inc
21 July 2016

Religious issues & debates; Gay & Lesbian studies; Religious freedom & freedom of worship; Human rights & civil liberties law

In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty. Nowhere has this conflict been more salient than in the debate between claims of religious freedom, on one hand, and equal rights claims made on the behalf of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, on the other. As new rights for LGBT individuals have expanded in liberal democracies across the West, longstanding rights of religious freedom -- such as the rights of religious communities to adhere to their fundamental teachings, including protecting the rights of conscience; the rights of parents to impart their religious beliefs to their children; and the liberty to advance religiously-based moral arguments as a rationale for laws -- have suffered a corresponding decline. Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr, and Jack Friedman's volume, Religious Freedom and Gay Rights brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on religion, morality, politics, and law to analyze the emerging tensions between religious freedom and gay rights in three key geographic regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. What implications will expanding regimes of equality rights for LGBT individuals have on religious freedom in these regions? What are the legal and moral frameworks that govern tensions between gay rights and religious freedom? How are these tensions illustrated in particular legal, political, and policy controversies? And what is the proper way to balance new claims of equality against existing claims for freedom of religious groups and individuals? Religious Freedom and Gay Rights offers several explorations of these questions.

By: Jack Friedman
Edited by: Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 502g
ISBN: 9780190600617
ISBN 10: 0190600616
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 21 July 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

TS: Associate Director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University; Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University; co-author of God's Century (Norton, 2011)TF: Visiting Associate Professor of Religion and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University JF: Research assistant at the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

Reviews for Religious Freedom and Gay Rights: Emerging Conflicts in the United States and Europe

[T]his is an excellent volume and is a must-read for anyone interested in the nexus between religious freedom and LGBT rights in the West. -- Journal of Church and State