A HUMAN RIGHT TO RELIGIOUS FREEDOM?

Some MOJ readers may be interested in a paper I've just posted to SSRN.  The abstract--and a link to the paper--are below.

A Right to Religious Freedom? The Universality of Human Rights, the Relativity of Culture

Abstract:  This Essay is the basis of a presentation I made to a symposium on religious freedom at the Roger Williams University School of Law in October 2004. I inquire, in the Essay, whether we who affirm (what I call) the morality of human rights should want the international law of human rights to protect a right to religious freedom. Along the way, I offer some reflections on the relevance of cultural relativity to the project of universalizing human-rights-claims.

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Michael P.