Courting Epistemology: Legal Scholarship, the Courts, and the Rationality of Religious Belief

What we here show is two-fold. First, there is in certain sectors of the legal community a trend to pronounce negatively on the epistemic credentials of religious belief: many hold that religious belief as such is simply irrational. Our second claim is simply that religious belief need not be irrational: it is perfectly possible for religious believers to have epistemically justified religious beliefs. We discuss here several implications of our two-fold claim. The most important of these is simply that religious citizens' religious beliefs cannot be barred from the public square for any epistemological reason.