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Law, Religion, and Freedom
This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings. The volume brings together chapters by leading experts from law, religious studies, and international relations, who provide perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic. At a time when the polarization of ‘culture wars’ is aggravating tensions between secular and religious views about accommodating the conscientious claims of individuals and groups, and when the right to freedom of religion itself is facing misunderstanding and erosion, the work provides welcome clarity and depth. Some chapters adopt a primarily conceptual and historical approach; others analyze particular difficulties or conflicts that have emerged in European and American jurisdictions, along with concrete applications and recommendations for the future. The book will be a valuable resource for students, academics, and policy-makers with an interest in law, religion, and human rights.
Representing Religion in the European Union
Religious actors are becoming part of the EU bureaucratic system, and their mobilisation in Brussels and Strasbourg in the last decade has increased dramatically. This book explores the mechanism and impact of religious representation by examining relations between religious practitioners and politicians in the European Union from the Second World War until today. This book seeks to answer the following questions: How do (trans)national religious groups enter into contact with European institutions? What are the rationale and the mechanisms of religious representation in the European Union? How are religious values transposed into political strategies? What impact has relations between relig...
Legal Code of Religious Minority Rights
This volume presents a systematic collection of the various international legal sources that define the rights of religious minorities. In a time of increasing tensions around religious minorities, this volume presents a systematic collection of international and European documents on the protection and promotion of religious minorities’ rights. The code includes documents from the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the European Union. An index system connects the various sources and norms, and emphasizes the strengths and the weaknesses in the legal frameworks of international and European institutions. While allowing for fur...
Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law
This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam. The work explores the history of religious minorities within Islam in Indonesia, which contains the world’s largest Muslim population, as well as the present-day ways by which the government may address issues through reconciling international human rights law and Islamic law. Given the context of multiple sets of religious norms in Indonesia, this is a complicated endeavour. In addition to amending and enacting human rights norms, the government is also negotiating with the long hi...
Freedom of Religion and Religious Diversity
Today, pluralism is increasingly the norm and can be seen as a permanent characteristic of modernity. As seen in world events, religion has not become irrelevant but more diverse, giving rise to a complex web of religion and belief minorities, together with intra-plural majorities. Nations seek ways to implement the ideal of freedom of religion, but as this book shows, whether East or West, in the global North or the South, there is no simple formalism for accommodating religious diversity. Different faith communities have competing needs and demands for the same social space, with tensions inevitably arising. This book highlights responses from liberal democracies which enshrine secularism ...
Religion and Marriage Law
Successive governments have made progressive, but ad hoc reforms to marriage law in Britain. This book provides the first accessible guide to how contemporary marriage law interacts with religion. It reveals the need for the consolidation, modernisation and reform of marriage law and sets out proposals for transformation.
The Internal Law of Religions
Comparative law of religions has developed in recent years as a new discipline at the intersection of legal and religious science, of theology and anthropology. This book presents a systematic theoretical basis for this new discipline. While law is mostly associated with the state, many religions also have their own internal law. These internal legal norms are aimed at a particular form of behaviour on the part of believers. They therefore play a particular role in conflicts arising today between certain religious forms of behaviour. The comparison of the internal law of religions serves to establish and explain the commonalities and differences between various religious legal traditions. Th...
Die Dioezesankurie
Der Tagungsband analysiert aktuelle Entwicklungen in den Kurien von 7 Diözesen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Gegenüber der Diözesankurie im CIC gibt es Besonderheiten, wie Justiziare, Finanzkammern, Ordinariatskonferenzen, Kirchensteuerräte und Katholikenräte, während Kanzler, Ökonom und Vermögensverwaltungsrat teilweise fehlen....
Die Einigung Europas - ein christliches Projekt?
Die Europaische Integration steht heute sowohl vor politisch-wirtschaftlichen als auch vor sozial-ethischen Herausforderungen. In einem solchen Prozess kann die Frage nach Religion und Weltanschauungen nicht ignoriert werden. Es stellt sich nun die Frage, inwieweit sich die Kirchen Europas mit dem Einigungsprojekt identifizieren und den Einigungsprozess mitgestalten konnen. Dabei eroffnen sich unterschiedliche Problemkreise, angefangen mit der Frage, was das geeinigte Europa in der Zukunft erreichen will bis hin zur Frage nach dem Offentlichkeitsanspruch der Kirchen und Religionsgemeinschaften auf europaischer Ebene. Sollen sich die Kirchen am aktuellen Einigungsprojekt beteiligen und wie so...
