Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy / Jean Cohen, Cécile Laborde.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Jean, editor.

Laborde, Cécile, editor.

Series:

Religion, culture, and public life.

Religion, Culture, and Public Life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freedom of religion.

Religion and politics.

Religion and state.

Political theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (465 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Religion, secularism, and constitutional democracy

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Polarization between political religionists and militant secularists on both sides of the Atlantic is on the rise. Critically engaging with traditional secularism and religious accommodationism, this collection introduces a constitutional secularism that robustly meets contemporary challenges. It identifies which connections between religion and the state are compatible with the liberal, republican, and democratic principles of constitutional democracy and assesses the success of their implementation in the birthplace of political secularism: the United States and Western Europe.Approaching this issue from philosophical, legal, historical, political, and sociological perspectives, the contributors wage a thorough defense of their project's theoretical and institutional legitimacy. Their work brings fresh insight to debates over the balance of human rights and religious freedom, the proper definition of a nonestablishment norm, and the relationship between sovereignty and legal pluralism. They discuss the genealogy of and tensions involving international legal rights to religious freedom, religious symbols in public spaces, religious arguments in public debates, the jurisdiction of religious authorities in personal law, and the dilemmas of religious accommodation in national constitutions and public policy when it violates international human rights agreements or liberal-democratic principles. If we profoundly rethink the concepts of religion and secularism, these thinkers argue, a principled adjudication of competing claims becomes possible.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction / Cohen, Jean L.

Part I: Freedom of Religion or Human Rights

1. Religious Freedom and the Fate of Secularism / Moyn, Samuel

2. Religion: Ally, Threat, or Just Religion? / Phillips, Anne

3. Regulating Religion Beyond Borders / Ergas, Yasmine

4. Pluralism vs. Pluralism / Joppke, Christian

Part II: Nonestablishments and Freedom of Religion

5. Rethinking Political Secularism and the American Model of Constitutional Dualism / Cohen, Jean L.

6. Is European Secularism Secular Enough? / Bhargava, Rajeev

7. State-Religion Connections and Multicultural Citizenship / Modood, Tariq

8. Breaching the Wall of Separation / Lacorne, Denis

9. Transnational Nonestablishment (Redux) / Haupt, Claudia E.

Part III: Religion, Liberalism, and Democracy

10. Liberal Neutrality, Religion, and the Good / Laborde, Cécile

11. Religious Arguments and Public Justification / Bardon, Aurélia

12. Religious Truth and Democratic Freedom / Accetti, Carlo Invernizzi

13. Republicanism and Freedom of Religion in France / Troper, Michel

Part IV: Sovereignty and Legal Pluralism in Constitutional Democracies

14. Sovereignty and Religious Norms in the Secular Constitutional State / Grimm, Dieter

15. Religion and Minority Legal Orders / Malik, Maleiha

16. The Intersection of Civil and Religious Family Law in the U.S. Constitutional Order / McClain, Linda C.

17. Religion-Based Legal Pluralism and Human Rights in Europe / Romero, Alicia Cebada

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231540735

0231540736

OCLC:

933388574