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The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. By Judith Butler, Jürgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West. Edited by Eduardo Mendieta and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.2011. Pp. 137. $22.00. ISBN-13: 978-0-231-15646-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Drew Baker
Drew Baker*
Affiliation:
Doctoral Candidate in Religion, Ethics, and Society, Claremont School of Theology; Lecturer in Religious Studies, University of California, Riverside
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 336 - 339
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2014 

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References

1 Taylor, Charles, A Secular Age (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007)Google Scholar.

2 Recently, Taylor has extended this point in response to the proposed ban on government employees wearing religious symbols in his native Quebec: treating religion as a special case actually conflicts with the important secular goal of inclusivity. See, e.g., The Canadian Press, “Quebec Religious Symbols Ban Proposal Roundly Condemned,” CBC News, August 20, 2013, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/quebec-religious-symbols-ban-proposal-roundly-condemned-1.1352729.

3 Butler, Judith, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (New York: Verso, 2004)Google Scholar; Butler, Judith, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (New York: Verso, 2009)Google Scholar.