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Religious Freedom and the Common Good: A Summary of Arguments and Issues

Thomas C. Berg

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1. See 2018 U.S. COMM'N ON INT'L RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ANN.REP. 1, 1 https:// www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2018USCIRFAR.pdf(describing twenty-eight countries where "governments and nonstate actors targeted religious minorities, dissenting members of majority communities, and nonreligious persons.")."The most severe abuses included genocide and other mass atrocities, killings, enslavement, rape, imprisonment, forced displacement, forced conversions, intimidation, harassment, property destruction, the marginalization of women, and bans on children participating in religious activities or education."Id.2.

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1. See 2018 U.S. COMM'N ON INT'L RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ANN.REP. 1, 1 https:// www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2018USCIRFAR.pdf(describing twenty-eight countries where "governments and nonstate actors targeted religious minorities, dissenting members of majority communities, and nonreligious persons.")."The most severe abuses included genocide and other mass atrocities, killings, enslavement, rape, imprisonment, forced displacement, forced conversions, intimidation, harassment, property destruction, the marginalization of women, and bans on children participating in religious activities or education."Id.2.

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1. See 2018 U.S. COMM'N ON INT'L RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ANN.REP. 1, 1 https:// www.uscirf.gov/sites/default/files/2018USCIRFAR.pdf(describing twenty-eight countries where "governments and nonstate actors targeted religious minorities, dissenting members of majority communities, and nonreligious persons.")."The most severe abuses included genocide and other mass atrocities, killings, enslavement, rape, imprisonment, forced displacement, forced conversions, intimidation, harassment, property destruction, the marginalization of women, and bans on children participating in religious activities or education."Id.2.

Key concepts: Skepticism, Argument (complex analysis), Autonomy, Common good, Religious philosophy, Law, Political science, Freedom of religion

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