Questions of conscience in a confessional state: From 'Freedom of conscience' to 'Objections of conscience' in Malta.
While there is an ample body of literature in the anthropology of moralities there is a surprising dearth of research on conscience per se. In Malta over the last ten years there has been a proliferation of a public discourse of 'conscience' – its affordances, freedoms and its legal safeguards. This...
| Publicado en: | History & Anthropology Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 741 - 761 |
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