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Religion, Conscience, And The Law: Reasons, Bases, And Limits For Exemptions, Kent Greenawalt
Religion, Conscience, And The Law: Reasons, Bases, And Limits For Exemptions, Kent Greenawalt
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Kent Greenawalt discusses the permissibility, scope, and rationale for law to provide exemptions to protect religious and nonreligious conscience in the United States. It may be difficult for the law to determine which sentiments amount to conscience given differences in individuals’ perception and the strength of their convictions. Even the notion of a religious conscience is complex. Religious citizens’ conclusions about matters of interest to religion may proceed from both religion and reason, or only from reason. It is not clear what should count as religious, given differences between denominations and their ideas over time. There are a host of …