Research handbook on law and religion / edited by Rex Ahdar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Ahdar, Rex, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (512 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Inc., 2018.

Summary:

Offering an interdisciplinary, international and philosophical perspective, this comprehensive Research Handbook explores both perennial and recent legal issues that concern the modern state and its interaction with religious communities and individuals. Providing in-depth, original analysis the book includes studies of a wide array of nation states, such as India and Turkey, which each have their own complex issues centred on law, religion and the interactions between the two. Longstanding issues of religious liberty are explored such as the right of conscientious objection, religious confession privilege and the wearing of religious apparel. The contested meanings of the secular state and religious neutrality are revisited from different perspectives and the reality of the international human rights protections for religious freedom are analysed. Timely and astute, this discerning Research Handbook will be a valuable resource for both academics and researchers interested in the many topics surrounding law and religion. Lawyers and practitioners will also appreciate the clarity with which the rights of religious liberty, and the challenges in making these compatible with state law, are presented.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword by Professor John Witte Jr.

Part I Law and religion

1. Navigating law and religion: familiar waterways, rivers less travelled and uncharted seas / Rex Ahdar

2. The sociological dimension of law and religion / Russell Sandberg

Part II Jurisprudential themes

3. Equality, religion, and nihilism / Steve D. Smith

4. Jeremy Bentham and the problem of the authority of biblical law / Jonathan Burnside

5. Dworkin's religion and the end of religious liberty / Joel Harrison

6. What kind of human right is religious liberty? / Andrew Koppelman

Part III Religion-state relations

7. Establishment and encounter / Perry Dane

8. Religion, secularism and limitations on constitutional amendment / Richard Albert and Yaniv Roznai

9. Regulation of religion communities in a multicultural polity / Jacyln L. Neo

10. Liberal constitutionalism and the unsettling of the secular / Benjamin L. Berger

11. The boundaries of faith-based organizations in Europe / Hans-Martien ten Napel

12. Enforcing religious law / Farrah Ahmed

Part IV Adjudicating religion

13. When judges are theologians: adjudicating religious questions / Michael A. Helfand

14. The justiciability and adjudication of religious disputes / Francois Venter

Part V International perspectives

15. Controversial doctrine: the relevance of religious content in the supervisory role of international human rights bodies / Paul Taylor

16. Dangers of the changing narrative of human rights: why democracy and security need religious freedom / Merilin Kiviorg

Part VI Freedom of religion issues

17. Freedom of religion and the rise of secularism: struggles in the British workplace / Mark Hill QC

18. The legal recognition of freedom of conscience as conscientious objection: familiar problems and new lessons / Ian Leigh

19. Of Burqas (and Niqabs) in courtrooms: the neglected women's voice / Renae Barker

20. Trinity Western University's Law School: reconciling rights / Janet Epp Buckingham

21. The persistence of religious confession privilege / A. Keith Thompson

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes biliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78811-247-4