The Conscience Wars: Rethinking the Balance between Religion, Identity, and Equality

516 Pages·2018·2.839 MB·English

by  Susanna Mancini, Michel Rosenfeld

the conscience wars
In this work, Professors Mancini and Rosenfeld have brought together an
impressive group of authors to provide a comprehensive analysis of the greater
demandforreligiousexemptionstogovernmentmandates.Traditionalreligious
conscientiousobjectioncases,suchasrefusaltosalutetheflagortoserveinthe
military during war, have had a diffused effect throughout society. In sharp
contrast, targeting practices like abortion, LGTBQ adoption, and same-sex
marriage,theseauthorsarguethattoday’smostnotoriousobjectionsimpingeon
therightsofothers.Thedramaticexpansionofconscientiousobjectionclaimshas
revolutionized the battle between religious traditionalists and secular civil
libertarians, raising novel political, legal, constitutional, and philosophical
challenges. Highlighting the intersection between conscientious objections,
religious liberty, and the equality of women and sexual minorities, this volume
showcasesthispoliticaldebateandtheprincipaljurisprudencefromdifferentparts
oftheworldandemphasizesthelittle-knowninternationalsocialmovementsthat
competegloballytoalterthedebate’sterms.
Susanna Mancini is a full professor of law and the chair of comparative
constitutionallawattheUniversityofBolognaSchoolofLaw.
MichelRosenfeldistheUniversityProfessorofLawandComparativeDemocracy
andtheJusticeSydneyL.RobinsProfessorofHumanRightsattheBenjaminN.
CardozoSchoolofLawatYeshivaUniversityinNewYork.

The Conscience Wars
rethinking the balance between religion,
identity, and equality
Editedby
SUSANNA MANCINI
UniversityofBologna
MICHEL ROSENFELD
BenjaminN.CardozoSchoolofLaw
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Contents
ListofFigures pagex
ListofContributors xi
Acknowledgments xx
Introduction:TheNewGenerationofConscience
ObjectionsinLegal,Political,andCulturalContext 1
SusannaManciniandMichelRosenfeld
parti conscientiousobjectioninaconstitutional
democracy:theoreticalperspectives 21
1 ConscienceandItsClaims:APhilosophicalHistoryof
ConscientiousObjection 23
JulieSaadaandMarkAntaki
2 TheConscienceWarsinHistoricalandPhilosophical
Perspective:TheClashbetweenReligiousAbsolutes
andDemocraticPluralism 58
MichelRosenfeld
3 ConscientiousObjections 102
BernhardSchlink
4 EgalitarianJusticeandReligiousExemptions 109
Ce´cileLaborde
5 IsThereaRighttoConscientiousObjection? 127
LorenzoZucca
vii
viii Contents
6 AffectandtheTheo-PoliticalEconomyoftheRight
toFreedomof“Thought,ConscienceandReligion” 149
MarinosDiamantides
partii conscientiousobjectionorculturewars?the
changingdiscourseofreligiouslibertyclaims 185
7 ConscienceWarsinTransnationalPerspective:Religious
Liberty,Third-PartyHarm,andPluralism 187
DouglasNeJaimeandRevaSiegel
8 TransatlanticConversations:TheEmergenceof
Society-ProtectiveAntiabortionArgumentsinthe
UnitedStates,Europe,andRussia 220
SusannaManciniandKristinaStoeckl
9 TheGeopoliticsofTransnationalLawandReligion:
WarsofConscienceandtheFramingEffectsofLaw
asaSocialInstitution 258
PasqualeAnnicchino
partiii objectingtoantidiscriminationlawsinthe
nameofmainstreamreligiousconvictions:striking
abalancebetweenfreedomandequality 275
10 ObjectionstoAntidiscriminationintheNameof
ConscienceorReligion:AConflictingRightsApproach 277
EvaBrems
11 TheRoleoftheEuropeanCourtofHumanRights
inAdjudicatingReligiousExceptionClaims 303
HelenKellerandCorinaHeri
12 WhenDoReligiousAccommodationsBurdenOthers? 328
NelsonTebbe,MicahSchwartzman,andRichardSchragger
partiv conscience,accommodationanditsharms:
children,women,andsexualminorities 347
13 TheMissingChildreninEliteLegalScholarship 349
MarciA.Hamilton