God, Religion and Civil Governance

This volume, God, Religion, and Civil Governance, aims to confirm that liberty and autonomy are essential to contemporary Western democratic societies. However, so is religion. Religious freedom actually serves as the most basic liberty that protects our other freedoms and human rights, while serving the common good. Religious freedom, in this view,
cannot be reduced to the freedom to worship the God of the universe.
It also includes recognizing the moral structure of the universe and the mor...