@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674062955,
      recid = {458435},
      author = {Maclure, Jocelyn, and Taylor, Charles, and Todd, Jane  Marie,},
      title = {Secularism and freedom of conscience [electronic resource]  /},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, Mass. :},
      number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674062955},
      pages = {1 online resource (142 p.)},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical  and urgent as income inequalities or the paths to  sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis,  Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly  reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of  secularism-equal respect, and freedom of conscience-and its  two operative modes-separation of Church (or mosque or  temple) and State, and State neutrality vis-à-vis  religions. But more crucially, they make the powerful  argument that in our ever more religiously diverse,  politically interconnected world, secularism, properly  understood, may offer the only path to religious and  philosophical freedom.Secularism and Freedom of Conscience  grew out of a very real problem-Quebec's need for  guidelines to balance the equal respect due to all citizens  with the right to religious freedom. But the authors go  further, rethinking secularism in light of other critical  issues of our time. The relationship between religious  beliefs and deeply-held secular convictions, the scope of  the free exercise of religion, and the place of religion in  the public sphere are aspects of the larger challenge  Maclure and Taylor address: how to manage moral and  religious diversity in a free society. Secularism, they  show, is essential to any liberal democracy in which  citizens adhere to a plurality of conceptions of what gives  meaning and direction to human life. The working model the  authors construct in this nuanced account is capacious  enough to accommodate difference and freedom of conscience,  while holding out hope for a world in which diversity no  longer divides us.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/458435},
}