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Taking Rites Seriously is about how religious beliefs and religious believers are assessed by judges and legal scholars and are sometimes mischaracterized and misunderstood by those who are critical of the influence of religion in politics or in the formation of law. Covering three general topics - reason and motive, dignity and personhood, nature and sex - philosopher and legal theorist Francis J. Beckwith carefully addresses several contentious legal and cultural questions over which religious and non-religious citizens often disagree: the rationality of religious belief, religiously motivated legislation, human dignity in bioethics, abortion and embryonic stem cell research, reproductive rights and religious liberty, evolutionary theory, and the nature of marriage. In the process, he responds to some well-known critics of public faith - including Brian Leiter, Steven Pinker, Suzanna Sherry, Ronald Dworkin, John Rawls, and Richard Dawkins - as well as to some religiously conservative critics of secularism, such as the advocates for intelligent design.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: Taking Rites Seriously
• Subtitle: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith
• Author: Francis J. Beckwith
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9781107112728
• ISBN: 1107112729
• ID: 09328190
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 506 g
• Dimensions: 161 × 237 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. November 2015

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