Roger Trigg (2012) Equality, Freedom and Religion. London:
Oxford University Press. The following information was supplied
by Roger Trigg for the EHRC Religion or Belief Research Network.
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book examines whether religious freedom is being curtailed in
pursuit of equality and the outlawing of discrimination and
whether enough effort is made to accommodate those motivated by
a religious conscience. It argues that, at times, the right to
put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes second
place in the law of different countries to the pursuit of other
social priorities and that increasingly in many jurisdictions in
Europe and North America, religious freedom can all too easily
be ‘trumped’ by other rights. The book looks at the assumptions
that lie behind this perceived subordination of religious
liberty to other social concerns, especially the pursuit of
equality. The author gives examples from different Western
countries of a steady erosio