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by Mary Shivananden, S.T.D.
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In Relativism or Relativity: Religious Freedom and the Family Professor Shivanandan illuminates the debate about religion and the public square by throwing a searching light on antithetical understandings of human freedom, particularly religious freedom. A popular understanding is that freedom is requisite to autonomy. Less popular is the understanding that freedom is requisite to relationality. Professor Shivanandan explains how contemporary public debates about the family, issues of birth, marriage and death, are corollary to a prior confusion between autonomy and relationality. In the autonomy model, others are an imposition on freedom. In the relational model, others are integral to freedom. These models are at the heart of debates about family, birth , marriage and death, and they are at the heart of what religious freedom means and the place of religion in the public square. Professor Shivanandan's masterful treatment of freedom is crucial to setting aright a Culture of Life in our public square.
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