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5 questions (and answers) about religious exemptions for vaccines
by Wei Zhu...Northport Union Free School District (1987) held that the restriction on anti-vaccination parents being “bona fide members of a recognized religious organization” violates the Establishment and Free Exercise clauses. In...
The politics of religious freedom
What is religious freedom supposed to free?
by Webb KeaneWhat is religious freedom supposed to free? That is, what is the operant understanding of “religion” behind the claims of religious freedom such that religion requires its own forms, practices,...
The politics of religious freedom
On the freedom of the concepts of religion and belief
by Yvonne Sherwood...“religion or belief” in current legislation in England and Wales. And I begin by putting a different spin on religious freedom by exploring the terrifying freedom of the concepts of...
The politics of religious freedom
Is religion free?
by Michael Lambek...one might say that what religion is not is freedom. Hence the very idea of freedom of religion is paradoxical; it is the freedom to be unfree in a particular...
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Scientology given full free-exercise exemptions
by John D. Boy...human trafficking. Dale S. Fischer, a judge on the U. S. District Court, Central District of California, argued that Scientology is protected by the First Amendment’s free exercise clause, putting...
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Religion and the freedom of speech
by Laura Duane...freedom of association and a free press, it even undermines free exercise of religion. Challenging the beliefs of other faiths can be part of that exercise. Countries such as Saudi...
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Reversal in the case of Tariq Ramadan
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im, Mohammed A. Bamyeh, Richard W. Bulliet, Craig Calhoun, John L. Esposito, Mark Juergensmeyer and Arvind Rajagopal...I celebrate this reversal of an outrageous and utterly counterproductive denial of visa for Tariq Ramadan for the obvious benefits of academic freedom and free debate for a better-informed American...