Administrative / Constitutional Law

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

Edited by Lorenzo Zucca · Camil Ungureanu
Cambridge University Press January 2012

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780521198103
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
January 2012
Format
Hardback , 350 pages
Jurisdiction
Europe ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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

Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Lorenzo Zucca
King's College London

Camil Ungureanu
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona

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