Descrição
Modernization was meant to spell he decline of religion. However, as the new millennium commences the major world religions are making increasingly difficult claims upon modern democratic states, and their underlying liberal concepts of tolerance and neutrality.
This book brings together leading authorities from the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands and Australasia to expose the complex interaction between law and religion, the recurring dilemmas and tensions surrounding religious freedom and the courts, treatment of religious controversy.
CONTENT
Foreword by the Rt Hon Lord Mackay of Clashfern
Notes on Contributors
1. The inevitability of Law and Religion: An introduction
2. The Ten Commandments: in What Sense Religious?
3. The United Nations and freedom of religion: The work of the human rights committee
4. Neutrality, Separation and Accommodation: Tensions in American First Amendment Doctrine
5. Wondering after Babel: Power, freedom and ideology in US Supreme Court interpretations of the religion clauses
6. Discretion and discrimination in legal cases involving controversial religious groups and allegations of ritual abuse
7. From toleration to pluralism: Religious liberty and religious establishment under the United Kingdom,s human rights act
8. Religion, international law and policy and policy in the wider European arena: New dimensions and developments
9. Art, Expression and the offended believer
10. And was Jerusalem Builded Here? Talmudic territory and the modernist defensive
