HREQ 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fundamental Justice, Puritans, Civil Religion

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 3120
• Professor: Paul Brienza

Document Summary

The role of the state in personal belief. Religion is a significant influence on the legal system and society. The rights to parents and child to the freedom of religion. In most forms of human society, religion and politics and public life have been fully integrated. We claim to be secular between state and church. Without religious unity, there cannot be political unity. Religion bind people in the world, which is are important to uniting the society, politically and morally. That diversity of different faiths, means we have multiple moral universes and can be a strength to work on. Makes claim that religion is tolerated in a certain parameter but doesn"t mean that they equal doesn"t mean tolerating. More of a kind of quiet polite separation of religion from public life. Religion should not be a prime topic. Polite, civil society discussion would tell us to not be too severe.