Author : Wendell Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 30,86 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1316514730
Judeo-Christian believers demanded and ultimately brought us six major advances in freedom - speech and press, criminal rights and higher education, abolition and civil rights.
Author : Wendell R. Bird
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,42 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Freedom of religion
ISBN : 9781009087438
"The successful demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms - freedoms of speech and press, rights for the criminally accused and for higher education, and freedoms from slavery and discrimination - were principally made by religious speech based on Judeo-Christian faiths, not by secular speech based on other belief systems"--
Author : Wendell Bird
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1009092995
In the secular, contemporary world, many people question the relevance of religion. Many also wonder whether religiously-informed speech and beliefs should be tolerated in the public square, and whether religions hinder freedom. In this volume, Wendell Bird reminds us that our basic freedoms are the important legacies of religious speech arising from the Judeo-Christian tradition. Bird demonstrates that religious speech, rather than secular or irreligious speech based on other belief systems, historically made the demands and justifications for at least six critical freedoms: speech and press, rights for the criminally accused, higher education, emancipation from slavery, and freedom from discrimination. Bringing an historically-informed approach to the development of some of the most important freedoms in the Anglo-American world, this volume provides a new framework for our understanding of the origins of crucial freedoms. It also serves as a powerful reminder of an aspect of history that is steadily being forgotten or overlooked-that many of our basic freedoms are the historical legacies of religious speech arising from Judeo-Christian faiths.
Author : John Steel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2023-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429557159
The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship offers a thorough exploration of the debates surrounding this contentious topic, considering the importance placed upon it in democratic societies and the reasons frequently proposed for limiting and constraining it. This volume addresses the various historical, philosophical, political and cultural parameters of censorship and freedom of expression as well as current debates involving technology, journalism and media regulation. Geographically, temporally and culturally diverse accounts of censorship and freedom of expression are discussed through a broad range of perspectives and case studies. This Companion covers core principles and concerns in addition to more specialist and controversial debates, including those surrounding hate speech, holocaust denial, pornography and so-called ‘cancel culture’. The collection pays particular attention to the role of the media in both facilitating and suppressing freedom of expression. Comprehensive, original and timely, The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship is a go-to resource for scholars and advanced students of media, communication and journalism studies.
Author : Michele Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2003-08-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521000789
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Author : Audrey Fisch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 21,15 MB
Release : 2007-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827596
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
Author : Brian Pinaire
Publisher : Stanford Law Books
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 MB
Release : 2008-03-20
Category : Law
ISBN :
This book examines how the United States Supreme Court understands freedom of speech during political campaigns and elections. To address this question, the author considers both the nature of the Court’s evaluation (or vision) of political speech in this context and the process by which this understanding is formulated, with a focus on four recent and representative cases.
Author : Raymond Gavins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1107103398
Intended for high school and college students, teachers, adult educational groups, and general readers, this book is of value to them primarily as a learning and reference tool. It also provides a critical perspective on the actions and legacies of ordinary and elite blacks and their non-black allies.
Author : Paul Harvey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231530781
The first guide to American religious history from colonial times to the present, this anthology features twenty-two leading scholars speaking on major themes and topics in the development of the diverse religious traditions of the United States. These include the growth and spread of evangelical culture, the mutual influence of religion and politics, the rise of fundamentalism, the role of gender and popular culture, and the problems and possibilities of pluralism. Geared toward general readers, students, researchers, and scholars, The Columbia Guide to Religion in American History provides concise yet broad surveys of specific fields, with an extensive glossary and bibliographies listing relevant books, films, articles, music, and media resources for navigating different streams of religious thought and culture. The collection opens with a thematic exploration of American religious history and culture and follows with twenty topical chapters, each of which illuminates the dominant questions and lines of inquiry that have determined scholarship within that chapter's chosen theme. Contributors also outline areas in need of further, more sophisticated study and identify critical resources for additional research. The glossary, "American Religious History, A–Z," lists crucial people, movements, groups, concepts, and historical events, enhanced by extensive statistical data.
Author : Freedom House
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742558038
Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 192 countries and a group of select territories are used by policy makers, the media, international corporations, and civic activists and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. Press accounts of the survey findings appear in hundreds of influential newspapers in the United States and abroad and form the basis of numerous radio and television reports. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.
