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Saw this and remembered Steve's query below.
 
Elevating environmentalism over ‘less worthy’ lifestyles
The legal ruling that a belief in climate change is similar to a religious conviction seriously damages science, philosophy and democracy says the academic, Frank Furedi here;

 http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7684/

Best wishes
Brid



 

Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 11:12:54 +0000
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Subject: What counts as a religious belief?
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Last week a UK high court judge made a very interesting ruling that sets out criteria for how one's personal beliefs might acquire the status of a 'religion' for purposes of legal protection. The belief is question was Green ideology, and the judgement was in favour of this 'believer'. Those of you interested in social epistemology, the relations between politics and science and/or science and religion are invited to visit and contribute to my blog on this matter. You'll find there a link a newspaper article that details the case. I would really like to know what academics make of this case. Please pass this message to any other lists that you think might take an interest in this matter.
 
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/swfuller/entry/the_dawn_of/
 
Yours in discourse
 
Steve
 
Steve Fuller
Professor of Sociology
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Phone +44 2476 523 940
 
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