Religion, Justice and Well-Being: the normative foundations of public policy in a multi-faith society

宗教、正义与福祉：多信仰社会公共政策的规范基础

• 批准号: AH/F00785X/1
• 负责人: Jonathan Seglow
• 金额: $ 2.58万
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2007 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF00785X%2F1
• 关键词: Religion; Justice; Well; Being; normative

In a multi-faith society such as the UK, many people's identities have a significant religious component. This means that many people's well-being is greatly affected by how their religion fares in public life: how law and government policy impact upon it, how it is accommodated in major institutions, and others' wider attitudes towards their religion. The main aim of the project is to investigate how religious sources of well-being should impact upon law and policy-making in the contemporary UK, particularly in a welfare context. We aim also to understand how major religions have understood their role in policy-making, and how government has responded; and more generally to give a wide sample of key individuals and institutions in academic, religious and policy communities a stake in our research; and to disseminate its results through edited volumes and the internet. In the current political climate, such aims seem urgent and important; but they also reflect much interesting work on religious identity done by political theorists which has had little influence on law, policy or religions themselves.Specifically, our objectives are to advance our knowledge and understanding in five significant areas where law and policy continue to impact upon religious identity. Each of these will be the focus of a one day research seminar with participants from the academy, the policy community, and representatives of the major religions. The seminars will address the following key questions:I: EducationHow can the needs of a common citizenship be reconciled with many religions' desire to maintain themselves through faith schools and religiously-informed curricula? Are faith schools and FE colleges vehicle of separatism or a mode of inclusive accommodation for children of religious parents? More broadly, should school education in a multi-faith society be wholly secular, informed by a religion or comparatively evaluate different religions?II: The Family Given that the family is a crucible of religious expression and socialisation, how far can the state intrude upon its autonomy? Do public officials have rights to interrogate the religiously-informed gender-specific and age-specific roles of spouses, partners, parents and children? Can we reconcile religious and secular views on marriage, divorce, adoption, civil (same sex) partnerships and other key family policies?III: Social CapitalHow can state and sub-state organisations create and maintain social trust, community cohesion, public altruism, and social capital in diverse, multi-faith societies? How far do residential, educational, vocational and other axes of religious segregation erode social capital, and how can law, policy and institutional design counter-act this? Should local community initiatives build upon or bypass religious identities?IV: HealthcareHow far is the notion of well-being implicit in healthcare policies encoded with religious norms, in for example, what it means to be autonomous or to enjoy good family relationships? For example, can it be right for decisions on treatment to be arrived at by the patient's family, challenging the idea of individual consent? Do medical practitioners have the right to refuse to administer treatments that oppose their religious beliefs?V Conflict and ReconciliationDo conflict and reconciliation commissions work best by bracketing religious differences or by exploring them, by reparative justice or by forgiveness? Which strategies best promote trust and civic solidarity? What role can faith communities play in resolving social and political conflicts which many see as originating in religious difference?

在一个多信仰的社会，如英国，许多人的身份有一个重要的宗教成分。这意味着，许多人的福祉受到他们的宗教在公共生活中的表现的极大影响：法律和政府政策如何影响它，它如何被容纳在主要机构中，以及其他人对其宗教的更广泛的态度。该项目的主要目的是调查如何幸福的宗教来源应该对当代英国的法律和政策制定的影响，特别是在福利方面。我们还旨在了解主要宗教如何理解他们在政策制定中的作用，以及政府如何回应;更一般地说，在我们的研究中，我们的研究涉及到学术，宗教和政策社区的重要个人和机构的广泛样本;并通过编辑的卷和互联网传播其结果。在当前的政治气候下，这些目标似乎是紧迫和重要的;但它们也反映了政治理论家对宗教身份所做的许多有趣的工作，这些工作对法律、政策或宗教本身几乎没有影响。具体来说，我们的目标是在法律和政策继续影响宗教身份的五个重要领域增进我们的知识和理解。每一个都将是为期一天的研究研讨会的重点，与会者来自学院，政策界和主要宗教的代表。研讨会将讨论以下关键问题：一：教育如何使共同公民身份的需要与许多宗教通过信仰学校和了解宗教的课程来维持自身的愿望相协调？信仰学校和FE学院是分离主义的工具还是宗教父母子女的包容性住宿模式？更广泛地说，在一个多信仰社会中，学校教育应该完全世俗化，以宗教为基础，还是对不同宗教进行比较评估？鉴于家庭是宗教表达和社会化的熔炉，国家能在多大程度上侵犯它的自主权？公职人员是否有权询问配偶、伴侣、父母和子女在宗教方面的特定性别和特定年龄的角色？我们能否调和宗教和世俗对婚姻、离婚、收养、民事（同性）伴侣关系和其他关键家庭政策的看法？三：社会资本国家和次国家组织如何在多元化、多信仰的社会中创造和维持社会信任、社区凝聚力、公共利他主义和社会资本？居住、教育、职业和其他宗教隔离的轴心在多大程度上侵蚀了社会资本，法律、政策和制度设计如何才能对此进行反击？地方社区的倡议应该建立在宗教特性之上还是绕过宗教特性？第四章：医疗保健在多大程度上是医疗保健政策中隐含的宗教规范的概念，例如，自主或享受良好的家庭关系意味着什么？例如，由病人家属作出治疗决定，挑战个人同意的想法，这是否正确？医生是否有权拒绝进行与其宗教信仰相抵触的治疗？V冲突与和解冲突与和解委员会通过包容宗教差异或探索宗教差异、通过修复性正义或通过宽恕来发挥最佳作用吗？哪些战略最能促进信任和公民团结？宗教团体在解决许多人认为源于宗教分歧的社会和政治冲突方面可以发挥什么作用？