Constitution writing, religion and democracy / edited by Asli Ü. Bâli, University of California, Los Angeles, USA ; Hanna Lerner, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bali, Asli Ümmühan, 1971- editor.

Lerner, Hanna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and state.

Freedom of religion.

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

x, 406 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

What role do and should constitutions play in mitigating intense disagreements over the religious character of a state? And what kind of constitutional solutions might reconcile democracy with the type of religious demands raised in contemporary democratising or democratic states? Tensions over religion-state relations are gaining increasing salience in constitution writing and rewriting around the world. This book explores the challenge of crafting a democratic constitution under conditions of deep disagreement over a state's religious or secular identity. It draws on a broad range of relevant case studies of past and current constitutional debates in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and offers valuable lessons for societies soon to embark on constitution drafting or amendment processes where religion is an issue of contention.

Contents:

Introduction / Asli U. Bali and Hanna Lerner

The curious case of religion in the Norwegian Constitution / John Madeley

Religion and the Japanese Constitution / Helen Hardacre

Constitution making and religion in West Germany in the shadow of state failure / Tine Stein

Secularism in a sectarian society? : the divisive drafting of the 1926 Lebanese Constitution / Mark Farha

The Constitution of a "laic" African and Muslim country : Senegal / Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Constitution writing and religious divisions in Turkey / Ergun Ozbudun

Constitutionalism, Islamic law, and religious freedom in postindependence Indonesia / Mirjam Kunkler

Cross-cutting rifts in constitutions and minority rights : India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka / Shylashri Shankar

Islamic law in an Islamic Republic : what role for parliament? / Matthew J. Nelson

Constitutional impasse, democracy and religion in Israel / Hanna Lerner

Islam and constitutionalism in the Arab world : the puzzling course of Islamic inflation / Nathan J. Brown

The politics of sacred paralysis : Islam in recent Moroccan and North African constitutions / David Mednicoff

Dancing by the cliff : constitution writing in post-revolutionary Tunisia, 2011-2014 / Nadia Marzouki

Designing constitutions in religiously divided societies / Asli U. Bali and Hanna Lerner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107070516

1107070511

OCLC:

951834991