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creators_name: Leontiev, Kim
title: Disaggregating a Paradox? Faith, Justice and Liberalism’s Religion
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divisions: UCL
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abstract: Being robustly committed to state neutrality which does not permit the promotion of liberal-perfectionist ideals and denying that there is anything normatively relevant or ‘special’ about religion leaves liberal-egalitarians embroiled in a paradox. If religion is not special, how and why do liberal states afford it differential treatment (in comparison with non-religious analogues like secular doctrines or deeply-held beliefs of individual conscience)? This paper explores liberal-egalitarian strategies for resolving this paradox with predominant reference to the disaggregation strategy advanced by Cécile Laborde. After discussing the novelty and advantages of disaggregation relative to other liberal-egalitarian strategies, the paper distinguishes between the coverage and the basis in justification of differential treatment to argue that disaggregation does not ultimately succeed in solving the latter. Despite this, reflecting on the clarifications achieved through disaggregation and the deeper issues of justification and justice emerging therefrom, the paper concludes by proposing the need to consider a lateral solution to the paradox and speculating on what this might look like.
date: 2021-09
date_type: published
official_url: http://doi.org/10.23827/BDL_2021_16
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
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elements_id: 1950854
doi: 10.23827/BDL_2021_16
lyricists_name: Leontiev, Kim
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actors_name: Leontiev, Kim
actors_id: KLEON01
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Biblioteca della Libertà
volume: 56
number: 232
pagerange: 53-82
citation:        Leontiev, Kim;      (2021)    Disaggregating a Paradox? Faith, Justice and Liberalism’s Religion.                   Biblioteca della Libertà , 56  (232)   pp. 53-82.    10.23827/BDL_2021_16 <https://doi.org/10.23827/BDL_2021_16>.       Green open access   
 
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