Law, State and Religion in the New Europe - Debates and Dilemmas

Informationen zum Autor Lorenzo Zucca is a reader in jurisprudence at King's College London. Camil Ungureanu is Lecturer in Political Theory at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Klappentext An exploration of the dilemmas raised by the return of religion to the public sphere. Zusammenfassung Do the Islamic veil or the crucifix have a place in schools? Should the secular state make allowances for religion? Such questions are examples of important issues for scholars and politicians and law-makers! and to answer them this book goes back to the fundamentals of European law and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Camil Ungureanu; Part I: 1. Religion and political liberty in Italian republics (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) Maurizio Viroli; 2. Two stories about toleration Rainer Forst; 3. Natural reason, religious conviction, and the justification of coercion in democratic societies Robert Audi; 4. The 'other' citizens: religion in a multicultural Europe Maleiha Malik; 5. Islam and the public sphere: public reason or public imagination? Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand; Part II: 6. Law v. religion Lorenzo Zucca; 7. Unveiling the limits of tolerance: comparing the treatment of majority and minority religious symbols in the public sphere Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld; 8. Objective, critical and pluralistic? Religious education and human rights in the European public sphere Ian Leigh; 9. Religion and (in)equality in the European framework Aileen McColgan; 10. Is there a right not to be offended in one's religious beliefs? George Letsas; 11. Religious pluralism versus social cohesion? Daniel Augenstein; Part III: 12. Rights, religion and the public sphere: the European Court of Human Rights in search of a theory? Julie Ringelheim; 13. Towards a European 'approach' to religion? Camil Ungureanu.

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• Authors: Lorenzo Zucca, Lorenzo (King''''s College London) Ungurean Zucca, Lorenzo Ungureanu Zucca
• Assisted by: Camil Ungureanu (Editor), Camil (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Ungureanu (Editor), Ungureanu Camil (Editor), Lorenzo Zucca (Editor), Lorenzo (King's College London) Zucca (Editor), Zucca Lorenzo (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107536265
• ISBN: 978-1-107-53626-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, LAW / Constitutional, Political science & theory, Religion & politics, Religion and Politics, Political science and theory, EU (European Union), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general