Includes bibliographical references (pagea 369-392) and index.
Contents:
Epilogue : legacies of Judeo-Christian faith and religious speech. The legacy of freedom of speech -- The legacy of freedom of press -- The legacy of freedoms for the criminally accused -- The legacy of higher education -- The legacy of abolition of slavery -- The legacy of the modern civil rights movement -- Epilogue : legacies of Judeo-Christian faith and religious speech.
Summary:
"The successful demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms - freedoms of speech and press, rights for the criminally accused and for higher education, and freedoms from slavery and discrimination - were principally made by religious speech based on Judeo-Christian faiths, not by secular speech based on other belief systems"-- Provided by publisher. "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" -- Page [i].
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