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This interdisciplinary volume examines the relationship between secularism, freedom of religion and human rights in legal, theoretical, historical and political perspective. It brings together chapters from leading scholars of human rights, law and religion, political theory, religious studies and history, and provides insights into the state of the debate about the relationship between these concepts. Comparative in orientation, its chapters draw on constitutionaland political discourses and experience not only from Western Europe and the United States, but also from India, the Arab world, and Malaysia.
List of contents
- 1: Nehal Bhuta: What Should Freedom of Religion Become?
- 2: Rajeev Bhargava: Reimagining Secularism: Respect, Domination and Principled Distance
- 3: Nathan J. Brown: Citizenship, Religious Rights, and State Identity in Arab Constitutions: Who is Free and What Are They Free to Do?
- 4: Carolyn Evans and Timnah Rachel Baker: Communal Religious Rights or Majoritarian Oppression: Conversion and Proselytism Laws in Malaysia and India
- 5: Samuel Moyn: Too Much Secularism? Religious Freedom in European History and the European Court of Human Rights
- 6: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan: US Exceptionalism in the Regulation of Religion
- 7: Lorenzo Zucca: Rethinking Secularism in Europe
About the author
Nehal Bhuta holds the established Chair of Public International Law at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to joining Edinburgh Law School, he held the Chair of Public International Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and was a co-director of the Academy of European Law. He is a member of the editorial boards of the European Journal of International Law, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, Constellations, and Humanity. He edits, with Anthony Pagden and Benjamin Straumann, the Oxford University Press series in the History and Theory of International Law.
Summary
This volume examines the relationship between secularism, freedom of religion, and human rights. The interdisciplinary chapters provide analysis into the state of the debate on the relationship between these areas. The volume draws on constitutional and political discourses from Western Europe, the US, India, the Arab world, and Malaysia.
