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Article: Religious Freedom in the Liberal State.(Book review)
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- Journal of Church and State
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- March 22, 2008
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Religious Freedom in the Liberal State. By Rex Ahdar and Ian Leigh. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2005. 410 pp. $125.00.
Rex Ahdar and Ian Leigh claim that religious freedom is "under increasing pressure" in liberal democracies. In Part I of this ambitious and challenging book, they argue that liberalism fails to provide an adequate conceptual framework for protecting religious freedom, and they propose an alternative theoretical groundling based on Christian theological principles. The liberal commitment to neutrality, for example, obscures the fact that the liberal state increasingly asserts its own vision of the good life while insisting that citizens not press ...
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