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

Cambridge University Press, 1/19/2012
EAN 9780521198103, ISBN10: 0521198100

Hardcover, 350 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Language: English

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.

Introduction Camil Ungureanu
Part I
1. Religion and political liberty in Italian republics (thirteenth to fifteenth centuries) Maurizio Viroli
2. Two stories about toleration Rainer Forst
3. Natural reason, religious conviction, and the justification of coercion in democratic societies Robert Audi
4. The 'other' citizens
religion in a multicultural Europe Maleiha Malik
5. Islam and the public sphere
public reason or public imagination? Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand
Part II
6. Law v. religion Lorenzo Zucca
7. Unveiling the limits of tolerance
comparing the treatment of majority and minority religious symbols in the public sphere Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld
8. Objective, critical and pluralistic? Religious education and human rights in the European public sphere Ian Leigh
9. Religion and (in)equality in the European framework Aileen McColgan
10. Is there a right not to be offended in one's religious beliefs? George Letsas
11. Religious pluralism versus social cohesion? Daniel Augenstein
Part III
12. Rights, religion and the public sphere
the European Court of Human Rights in search of a theory? Julie Ringelheim
13. Towards a European 'approach' to religion? Camil Ungureanu.