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Gerald V. Bradley: Proselytism and religious freedom

By Alliance Alert

Gerard V. Bradley writing at The Immanent Frame, a blog hosted by the Social Science Research Council: "Proselytizing is often criticized under the generic rubric of 'interfering' and even 'attacking' other religions, usually indigenous ones honeycombed with folk traditions. What sorts of behavior does the larger criticism refer to? And what are the pertinent norms for judging the validity of that criticism? . . . [I]f one thinks that religious liberty attaches to an established social order in which religion plays an important role, and if one credits reports that even peaceful encounters with articulated alternate conceptions of reality are 'experiences' of attempted 'destruction,' then one might well affirm some putative right to 'non-interference.' But then one will have drifted very far from a sound understanding of religious freedom?the understanding on offer in so many authoritative documents?and one will have abandoned its foundations altogether."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 28, 2010 (boomark / email).