Law, State and Religion in the New Europe Debates and Dilemmas

Author: Lorenzo Zucca; Camil Ungureanu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521198103
Published In: January 2012
Format: Hardback , 350 pages
Jurisdiction: Europe ? Disclaimer:
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The return of religion to the public sphere raises various dilemmas. Rights and values, pluralism and identity, justice and efficacy, autonomy and tradition, and integration and toleration cannot always be balanced without the loss of something valuable. This volume of essays tackles such dilemmas from two perspectives. To begin, major contemporary theorists rethink the place of religion in the public sphere from republican, liberal and critical-theoretical viewpoints. Contributors then bring together theory and practice to better conceptualize and assess the latest developments in European jurisprudence with respect to religion.

• Interdisciplinary treatment of the role of religion in Europe will appeal to lawyers, political scientists, philosophers, sociologists

• Brings together political theory, legal theory and case law

• Contains important new contributions from influential scholars such as Murizio Viroli, Robert Audi, Rainer Forst and Michel Rosenfeld as well as from promising younger scholars

Introduction Camil Ungureanu	1
Part I Part I	19
1 Religion and political liberty in Italian republics (in the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries) Maurizio Viroli	21
2 Two stories about toleration Rainer Forst	49
3 Natural reason, religious conviction, and the justification of coercion in democratic societies Robert Audi	65
4 The ‘other’ citizens: religion in a multicultural Europe Maleiha Malik	93
5 Islam and the public sphere: public reason or public imagination? Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand	115
Part II Part II	135
6 Law v. religion Lorenzo Zucca	137
7 Unveiling the limits of tolerance: comparing the treatment of majority and minority religious symbols in the public sphere Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld	160
8 Objective, critical and pluralistic? Religious education and human rights in the European public sphere Ian Leigh	192
9 Religion and (in)equality in the European framework Aileen McColgan	215
10 Is there a right not to be offended in one’s religious beliefs? George Letsas	239
11 Religious pluralism and national constitutional traditions in Europe Daniel Augenstein	261
Part III Part III	281
12 Rights, religion and the public sphere: the European Court of Human Rights in search of a theory? Julie Ringelheim	283
13 Europe and religion: an ambivalent nexus Camil Ungureanu	307
Index	334