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Proselytism and the right to freedom from improper irreligious influence: the example of public school education
Jurisprudentially speaking, proselytism is a concept within the larger genus of the protection of religious rights and freedoms. The word lends itself to differing opinions. However, there is a popular school of thought that proselytism has to do only with influencing people to adopt a particular religion. Such an understanding relies on the view that only the religious can be insidious and bear the potential to improperly proselytise, and thus excludes the possibility of improper irreligious forms of influence. In referring to the example of public-school education, it is argued that as much as the religious has the potential for improper proselytising, irreligious teachings or expressions also run the risk of improper proselytising. Not only are irreligious beliefs in many instances diametrically opposed to religious beliefs; they are a belief in themselves and cannot be seen as necessarily harmless or without the potential to proselytise improperly. Consequently, this article introduces an equitable and accommodative understanding of proselytism, which places the potentially harmful effects of both religious and irreligious beliefs on an equal footing with each other (something befitting to plural and democratic paradigms). This article therefore also cultivates further debate on improper irreligious proselytism in religious rights and freedoms jurisprudence, a scant topic in human rights jurisprudence
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Polytropic equation of state and primordial quantum fluctuations
We study the primordial Universe in a cosmological model where inflation is
driven by a fluid with a polytropic equation of state . We calculate the dynamics of the scalar factor and build a
Universe with constant density at the origin. We also find the equivalent
scalar field that could create such equation of state and calculate the
corresponding slow-roll parameters. We calculate the scalar perturbations, the
scalar power spectrum and the spectral index.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure
Algebraically special solutions in AdS/CFT
We investigate the AdS/CFT interpretation of the class of algebraically
special solutions of Einstein gravity with a negative cosmological constant.
Such solutions describe a CFT living in a 2+1 dimensional time-dependent
geometry that, generically, has no isometries. The algebraically special
condition implies that the expectation value of the CFT energy-momentum tensor
is a local function of the boundary metric. When such a spacetime is slowly
varying, the fluid/gravity approximation is valid and one can read off the
values of certain higher order transport coefficients. To do this, we introduce
a formalism for studying conformal, relativistic fluids in 2+1 dimensions that
reduces everything to the manipulation of scalar quantities.Comment: 30 pages + appendices, 2 figures; v2: typos corrected, ref. adde
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