Title: The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom. <i>Edited by Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green</i>
Abstract: The day job of most clinical law professors involves teaching aspiring lawyers the practice and profession of law through supervised litigation for real clients in the field. Because that field in my clinic is religious freedom, however, when outsiders inquire into our program, their focus is often not on legal pedagogy or training. Rather, the chief interest of many tends to concern more the nature and limits of such freedom as a normative matter. This inquiry, which in turn raises questions of liberty, equality, culture, and other attendant aspects of protecting and balancing rights, responsibilities, and interests, has of course been with us for centuries. But it has gained resonance in recent years, and in profound yet at times uneven ways. Small wonder the desire—and need—to understand the subject at a deeper level. In seeking to capture and unpack many of these dynamics in a systematic and fresh way, the University of Pennsylvania duo of Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green have now contributed to the conversation by compiling a rich collection of articles as co-editors of The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom. As one might expect given their range of expertise in history, political science, and law, Sharkey and Green take an expansive approach in offering a series of theoretical essays, case studies, and critiques from a diverse group of accomplished authors. But rather than come down on one side or another of a given controversy in the religious-freedom space, the editors allow their contributors to speak, appreciating that, in the lived experience of religion and its practice, the questions can often be as important as the answers one might provide—or dispute.
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-12-05
Language: en
Type: article
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