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Review Of Friendship In The Hebrew Bible By Saul M. Olyan, Ethan J. Leib
Review Of Friendship In The Hebrew Bible By Saul M. Olyan, Ethan J. Leib
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Liberalism And The Distinctiveness Of Religious Belief, Abner S. Greene
Liberalism And The Distinctiveness Of Religious Belief, Abner S. Greene
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Finding the appropriate sweet spot for religion’s role in the state and how state action may affect the lives of religious people continues to be elusive. Cécile Laborde’s ambitious book Liberalism’s Religion comes down firmly on the side of seeing religion as not distinctive, even in a liberal democracy. To the extent that nonestablishment and free exercise norms should prevail, they should prevail insofar as we can disaggregate religion into components that it shares with nonreligious belief and practice. In this review essay, I advance a position on which Laborde spends little time in her book — religion is distinctive …