Anthropological Case
The science of human beings, especially the study of human beings through time and space.
What is anthropology?
The sense or consciousness of the moral goodness or blameworthiness of one's own conduct.
What is conscience?
An act of refusing to continue to follow, obey, or recognize a religious faith.
What is apostasy?
An earnest presentation of reasons for opposition or grievances.
What is remonstrance?
A systematic body of concepts especially about human life and culture.
What is ideology?
This science is a new academic subdivision studying the desire and capacity of man to seek an unseen order rooted in his nature as a human being.
What is the Cognitive Science of Religion?
The universality of religious freedom informs us that it is a principle, a universal demand of justice, and this.
What is a universal right that transcends cultures?
Religious freedom is tightly bundled with other freedoms. For example, the core of religious expression and freedom of worship are these.
What are the freedom of speech and the freedom to assemble?
Religion is a source of these in public life.
What are virtue and equality?
This percentage of the world's population lives in country's with high or very high levels of religious restriction.
What is 83%?
This suggests, according to National Geographic, the urge to worship sparked civilization.
What is the world's oldest temple in Turkey (will also accept Gobekli Tepe)?
These are the three dimensions of religious freedom grounded in the dignity of human beings.
What are the freedoms to explore the truth about an unseen order, to embrace it once found, and to express it to others?
These are three goods positively correlated with religious freedom.
What are (any three of the following) political freedom, freedom of press, civil liberties, lower percentage of gross domestic product spent on military, longevity of democracy, lower levels of armed conflict, lower poverty, and economic freedom?
Religion also molds this in public life.
What is public opinion?
What are his mind and conscience?
This U.S. Supreme Court Justice wrote in his concurrence in Boerne v. Flores that "religious exercise shall be permitted so long as it does not violate general laws governing conduct."
Who is Justice Antonin Scalia?
We suffer in three ways if we believe we have the truth and are prevented from expressing it to others. Those three ways are an inability to do justice to the truth, an inability to do justice to ourselves, and this.
What is an inability to do justice to other persons?
In tyrannical governments, citizens are pressured to believe either the government is the only guide to universal truth or this.
What is the government per se is the source of truth and nothing transcendent exists?
This states "...but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."
What is Article VI of the U.S. Constitution?
This states "Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance."
What is Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
These are the four freedoms implicit in religious freedom.
What are the freedoms of intellectual and spiritual inquiry, the freedom of practical reason, the freedom of human sociality, and and the freedom of political and legal expression?
Nicholas Wolterstorff unpacks three major lines of argument for the civil right to religious freedom from the Christian tradition. They are God desires his creatures to freely worship him, absent of all coercion; man has the natural right and duty to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience; and this.
What is to deprive man of religious freedom is a violation of his dignity?
Religious individuals and communities embrace these three rights (among others) recognized within man's equality under the law.
What are (choose any three) the right to believe or not believe, to enter into or exit religious communities, to build houses of worship (within broad limits), to train clergy, to raise children in the faith, to build religious schools, to establish disciplinary norms for membership, and to invite others to join the religious community?
In this essay, James Madison expresses his view that another one of the central threats to the American settlement is unchecked power in the hands of a centralized government.
What is Federalist 51?
This states the only time when the rights and freedoms associated with religion may be limited is when "necessary to protect public safety, order, health, or morals or the fundamental rights and freedoms of others."
What is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights?