id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_mloce52tqrexfbxhd6zni5zqhm Corey Brettschneider A Transformative Theory of Religious Freedom: Promoting the Reasons for Rights 2010 28 .pdf application/pdf 12729 680 52 be concerned to preserve existing religious beliefs when forging an overlapping consensus between reasonable comprehensive views. I argue that when the state seeks to transform religious beliefs beliefs are at odds with the principle that citizens should be allowed to practice their religion and to believe what they wish free of state sanction. When the state seeks to transform beliefs at odds with the values and reasons that underlie religious freedom and other basic rights, it should respect my argument that the state must seek to transform existing religious beliefs freestanding principles, the state rightly seeks to transform the existing religious beliefs in question. At times, existing religious beliefs can serve to clarify and reinforce our commitments to freestanding principles of free and equal citizenship. equal status for all citizens commits the state to seeking the dialectical transformation of religion, I turn now to the contention that my view constitutes ./cache/work_mloce52tqrexfbxhd6zni5zqhm.pdf ./txt/work_mloce52tqrexfbxhd6zni5zqhm.txt