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See Kent Greenawalt, Religion and the Constitution: Free Exercise and Fairness (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006), pp. 74–85; see also Martha Nussbaum, Liberty of Conscience: In Defense of America’s Tradition of Religious Equality (New York: Basic Books, 2008), pp. 147–158.
See Niyazi Berkes, The Development of Secularism in Turkey (New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 479–503.
See Jean Hampton, “The Common Faith of Liberalism,” in The Intrinsic Worth of Persons: Contractarianism in Moral and Political Philosophy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
See Ronald Dworkin, Law’s Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986) and Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000).
See Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
See John Rawls, Political Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), p. 19; see also Elizabeth Anderson, “What is the Point of Equality,” Ethics, vol. 109, no. 2. Jan (1999).
John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, expanded ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 53.
Ibid, p. 186.
Cemal Karakas, “Turkey: Islam and Laicism” Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Report #78 (2007), p. 31.
Ibid, p. 31.
See Berkes, op. cit., p. 479.
“The Secularists Fight Back,” Economist, 5–11 April 2008, p. 53; see also “An overview of AK Party history, closure case process” Today’s Zaman, 2 August 2008.
See Karakas, op. cit., p. 30.
See “Summary of the Indictment Against the ruling AK Party,” Today’s Zaman, 29 April 2008.
See Stephen Kinzer, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001).
See Greenawalt, op. cit., p. 33.
Ibid.
Ibid.
See Karakas, op. cit
See Rawls, op. cit., pp. 215–216.
See “Summary of the Indictment Against The ruling AK Party,” op. cit.
See Karakas, op. cit.
See Michael Rubin, “Green Money, Islamist Politics in Turkey,” Middle East Quarterly (2005), vol. XII, no. 1.
See Seyla Benhabib, Culture and the Claims of Equality: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002), p. 98.
See Molly Moore, “In Turkey, ‘Honor Killings’ Follows Families to Cities,” Washington Post, A01, 8 August 2001.
See James Madison, “Federalist #10,” in The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, ed. Wooton (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2003).
See Anderson, op. cit., and G.A. Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008).
I would like to thank students at Bogazici University, Istanbul in Summer Term 2008 for many excellent discussions on topics directly related to this article. I would also like to thank John Exdell, Amy Lara, Alexander Moon, participants at the 2008 Association for Political Theory Conference at Wesleyan University, an anonymous referee, and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for their comments and help.
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Mahoney, J. Secularism, Equality, and Political Legitimacy. J Value Inquiry 44, 17–30 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-010-9201-9
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