Natural Law and Religious Freedom

Name: Natural Law and Religious Freedom
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Natural Law and Religious FreedomThe Role of Moral First Things in Grounding and Protecting the First Freedom\nAuthor(s): J. Daryl Charles\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472467775, 978-1472467775\nSynopsis\nEvery successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive moral pessimism in the Western cultural context and wider contemporary geopolitical challenges. Those geopolitical challenges result from two significant and worrisome global developments unprecedented violent persecution of religious minorities on several continents and a growing climate of secular hostility toward religious faith in Western societies. Natural Law and Religious Freedom aims to address what is relatively absent from the literature by demonstrating the importance of natural law ethics in both establishing and preserving basic human rights, of which .