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The essays in this section expose the difficulties involved in defining the conceptions of freedom and religion ensconced in the right to religious liberty. Key to this rumination is the opening essay by political theorist Cécile Laborde, who asks if it is possible to do away with the special status assigned to religion in the right to religious liberty. Can one expand the kinds of beliefs that are extended state protection and whose practical demands the state might accommodate within reasonable limit? How would one normatively and abstractly define the substance and scope of such beliefs in order to extend them legal protection? Laborde argues against Charles Taylor and Jocelyn Maclure’s recent proposal that, inasmuch as conscience is the proper locus of modern religion, it makes sense to extend state protection to other strongly held beliefs that exert a similar moral pull on individuals. Laborde argues that such a solution is problematic because it privileges the conscience and/or belief over practices and communal forms of life that may well exert a force on the individual similar to strongly held convictions. She remains sympathetic, however, to making the right to religious liberty normatively more capacious so as to accommodate a range of beliefs and practices that are not only religious.
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