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Title: TAKING RITES SERIOUSLY
LAW, POLITICS, AND THE REASONABLENESS OF FAITH
By: Francis J. Beckwith
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 1107112729
ISBN 13: 9781107112728
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 13 November, 2015
Pages: 240
Description: This book is a critical look at how courts, legal scholars, and the academic culture mischaracterize and misunderstand religious beliefs.
Synopsis: Taking Rites Seriously is about how religious beliefs and religious believers are assessed by judges and legal scholars and are sometimes mischaracterized and misunderstood by those who are critical of the influence of religion in politics or in the formation of law. Covering three general topics - reason and motive, dignity and personhood, nature and sex - philosopher and legal theorist Francis J. Beckwith carefully addresses several contentious legal and cultural questions over which religious and non-religious citizens often disagree: the rationality of religious belief, religiously motivated legislation, human dignity in bioethics, abortion and embryonic stem cell research, reproductive rights and religious liberty, evolutionary theory, and the nature of marriage. In the process, he responds to some well-known critics of public faith - including Brian Leiter, Steven Pinker, Suzanna Sherry, Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, and Richard Dawkins - as well as to some religiously conservative critics of secularism, such as the advocates for intelligent design.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Prizes: Winner of American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of
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