Liberalism and religion: Against congruence

Theoretical Inquiries in Law

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Spinner Halev, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 46749091699     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15653404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1565-3404.1197     Document Type: Review

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2. JOHN RAWLS, A THEORY OF JUSTICE (1971).
3. RAWLS, supra note 1, at 4.
4. Id. at xxiv.
5. Id. at 61.
6. JOHN RAWLS, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited, in THE LAW OF PEOPLES WITH THE IDEA OF PUBLIC REASON REVISITED 144 (1999).
7. An abbreviated list would include Robert Audi, The Separation of Church and State and the Obligations of Citizenship, 18 P HIL. & PUB. AFF. 259 (1989);
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14. and RONALD F. THIEMANN, RELIGION IN PUBLIC LIFE: A DILEMMA FOR DEMOCRACY (1996).
15. RAWLS, supra note 1, at 199.
16. JEFF SPINNER, THE BOUNDARIES OF CITIZENSHIP: RACE, ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY IN THE LIBERAL STATE 87-112 (1994).
17. On liberal pluralism generally, see ISAIAH BERLIN, FOUR ESSAYS ON LIBERTY (1969). More recently, see WILLIAM A. GALSTON, LIBERAL PLURALISM: THE IMPLICATIONS OF VALUE PLURALISM FOR POLITICAL THEORY AND PRACTICE (2002), and JEFF SPINNER-HALEV, SURVIVING DIVERSITY: RELIGION AND DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP (2000).
18. RAWLS, supra note 1, at xvii.
19. Id. at 35.
20. Id. at 140-44.
21. Id. at xvii.
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24. see also Corey Brettschneider, The Politics of the Personal: A Liberal Approach, 101 AM. POL. SA. REV. 19 (2007).
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26. RAWLS, supra note 6, at 159.
27. A good analysis of the tensions in Rawls's argument is Ruth Abbey, Back Toward a Comprehensive Liberalism? Justice as Fairness, Gender and Families, 35 POL. THEORY 5 (2007).
28. JEREMY WALDRON, LAW AND DISAGREEMENT 149-63 (1999).
29. Waldron, id., does not quite make this point but is quite illuminating in general about the role of agreement and disagreement.
30. RAWLS, supra note 1, at xvii.
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34. Id. at 84.
35. MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM, WOMEN AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: THE CAPABILITIES APPROACH 180 (2000).
36. Id. at 199.
37. Id. at 196.
38. Id. at 195.
39. GAVIN FLOOD, AN INTRODUCTION TO HINDUISM (1996). I explore the relationship between Hinduism and liberalism in Jeff Spinner-Halev, Hinduism, Christianity, and Liberal Religious Toleration, 33 POL. THEORY 28 (2005).
40. SPINNER-HALEV, supra note 10, at 214-19.
41. Robin D. Perrin, Paul Kennedy & Donald E. Miller, Examining the Sources of Conservative Church Growth: Where Are the New Evangelical Movements Getting Their Numbers?, 36 J. SCI. STUD. RELIGION 71 (1997).
42. AYELET SHACHAR, MULTICULTURAL JURISDICTIONS: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS 65-68 (2001).
43. Id. at 88-116.
44. Id. at 124.
45. Id. at 125.
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47. SHACHAR, supra note 33, at 126.
48. Shachar, supra note 37, at 602.
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57. These advisors train at Nishmat: The Jerusalem Center for Advanced Jewish Studies for Women, which is described, at Nishmat, http://www.nishmat.net/ about.php (last visited. July 27, 2007); the innovative character of women halachic advisors is noted in Barbara Sofer, The Human Spirit: Can Women Decide Halacha?, JERUSALEM POST ONLINE EDITION, May 11, 2006, available at http://www.nishmat.net/ CanWomenDecideHalacha.pdf.
58. SHACHAR, supra note 33, at 35-37.
59. Shelley Burtt, Comprehensive Educations and the Liberal Understanding of Autonomy, in CITIZENSHIP AND EDUCATION IN LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES 179, 184 (Kevin McDonough & Walter Feinberg eds., 2003).
60. See Burtt's discussion of this matter in id.
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