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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      April 2023
      April 2023
      ISBN:
      9781009090766
      9781316514733
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009090766
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 420 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      History of Ideas, History of Religion, Religion, Politics and International Relations
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    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.

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    • 1 - The Legacy of Freedom of Speech
      pp 3-46
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