Freedom of religion under bills of rights / edited by Paul Babie and Neville Rochow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Babie, Paul, 1966- editor.

Rochow, Neville, editor.

University of Adelaide Press, issuing body.

University of Adelaide. Research Unit for the Study of Society, Law and Religion, issuing body.

Series:

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of religion.

Constitutional law.

Constitutional law--Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 440 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

University of Adelaide Press 2012

Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, 2012.

Language Note:

Text in English.

Summary:

How can a nation protect fundamental rights and freedoms, including religious freedom, within a liberal democratic context? The objective of the essays presentedin this volume is to provide an overview of the principal modelsused to protect fundamental freedoms, and especially the right to freedom of belief,expression and practice of one’s religion, in major liberal democratic systems. A range of viewpoints are presented in a comparative way in orderto obtain insights, reveal strengths, weaknesses and differences of opinion, and tolearn from the lessons of others, how religion might be and has been protected.

Contents:

Protecting religious freedom under bills of rights : Australia as microcosm / Paul Babie and Neville Rochow

How religion constrains law and the idea of choice / Ngaire Naffine

Is the emperor wearing the wrong clothes? Human rights and social good in the context of Australian secularity : theological perspectives / Bruce Kaye

Anniversary overlap : or What happerns when St Paul meets the Universal Declaration of Human Rights / Alan Cadwallader

Defamation and vilification : rights to reputation, free speech and freedom of religion at common law and under human rights laws / Neil Foster

Should an Austsralian bill of rights address emerging international human rights norms? The challenge of "defamation of religion" / Robert C. Blitt

Christian concerns about an Australian Charter of Rights / Patrick Parkinson

Apostasy in Islam and the freedom of religion in international law / Asmi Wood

Political culture and freedom of conscience : a case study of Austria / David M Kirkham

The sky is falling if judges decide religious controversies! Or is it? The German experience of religious freedom under a bill of rights / Cornelia Koch

Religious freedom in a secular society : the case of the Islamic headscarf in France / Nicky Jones

Religious freedom in the UK after the Human Rights Act 1998 / Ian Leigh

Judicial interpretation, neutrality and the US Bill of Rights / Frank S Ravitch

Protecting religious freedom : two counterintuitive dialectics in US free exercise jurisprudence / Brett G. Scharffs

Walking the tightrope : the struggle of Canadian courts to define freedom of religion under the Canadian Charter of Rightrs and Freedoms / Barbara Billingsley

Quo vadis the free exercise of religion? The diminishment of student religious expression in US public schools / Charles J Russo

Freedom from discrimination on the basis of religion / Kris Hanna

Ruminations from the Shaky Isles on religious freedom in the Bill of Rights era / Rex Tauati Ahdar

Indigenous peoples and bills of rights / Paul Rishworth

Table of legislation and international instruments.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

OCLC:

781690987

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1017/9780987171818