Religious Freedom Why Now?: Defending an Embattled Human Right

Timothy Samuel Shah,

ISBN 10: 0981491197 / ISBN 13: 9780981491196

Published by The Witherspoon Institute, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religious Freedom Why Now?: Defending an Embattled Human Right
• Publisher: The Witherspoon Institute
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0981491197
• ISBN 13: 9780981491196
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Religious freedom is under sustained pressure today around the world. In some places, it is fair to say that religious freedom is under siege. This book is a response to that sobering fact. Although scant attention is paid by governments, the academy, or the media, the implications of this crisis—and we contend that it is a crisis—are quite serious. A worldwide erosion of religious freedom is causing large-scale human suffering, grave injustice, and significant threats to international peace and security. Outside the West, tens of millions of human beings are subject to violent persecution because of their religious beliefs, or those of their tormentors. Scores of millions more are subject to serious restrictions on their religious freedom. In the West itself, including the United States, religious freedom is also under various pressures. Where intellectual and political leaders treat religious freedom with skepticism or indifference, it is not surprising to find encroaching thr