Institutionalizing rights and religion : competing supremacies / edited by Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University, Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Batnitzky, Leora, 1966- editor.

Dagan, Ḥanokh, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Religious aspects.

Human rights.

Civil rights--Religious aspects.

Civil rights.

Religion and state.

Freedom of religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Modern statesmen and political theorists have long struggled to design institutions that will simultaneously respect individual freedom of religion, nurture religion's capacity to be a force for civic good and human rights, and tame religion's illiberal tendencies. Moving past the usual focus on personal free expression of religion, this illuminating book - written by renowned scholars of law and religion from the United States, England, and Israel - considers how the institutional design of both religions and political regimes influences the relationship between religious practice and activity and human rights. The authors examine how the organization of religious communities affects human rights, and investigate the scope of a just state's authority with respect to organized religion in the name of human rights. They explore the institutional challenges posed by, and possible responses to, the fraught relationship between religion and rights in the world today.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Apr 2017).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316599969

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.