Religion in the Public Sphere: A Comparative Analysis of German, Israeli, American and International LawWinfried Brugger, Michael Karayanni Springer Science & Business Media, 2007 M08 10 - 469 pages How closely correlated should church and state be? May a state recognize or dignify the role and meaning of religion at all, and if so can it treat different religious groups differently? This book intends to answer these questions through a portrayal and comparison of various legal orders including those of Germany, Israel, France and the USA. Some authors consider the issue of “church and state” from an international law perspective. The analyses are structured from both a state-institutional as well as from a fundamental rights and human rights perspective. Here the religious and secular freedoms are brought into focus. Whether, and how, these church-and-state aspects vary within divergent modern state contexts – and how they transnationally evolve – is also discussed. |
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... minority religions so as to achieve a more real equality? The present volume intends to answer some of these questions via a portrayal and comparison of various legal orders — primarily Germany, Israel, France and the USA will be ...
... minorities precisely in times of religious pluralism and ever-increasing secularization of society. Walter analyses the positions of the majority and the minority in the Cross Case and compares this with parallel arguments from US case ...
... minority have been viewed as separate and different. In essence, they are considered to be a group accommodation granted to religious minorities. Moreover, this notion of separateness has been reinforced over the years given the ...
... Other” Religion and State Conflict in Israel: On the Nature of Religious Accommodations for the Palestinian-Arab Minority.............................................................................................. 333 Ruth Gavison Days of ...
... minorities. In this contribution, I analyze these politics of religious recognition in a sociological perspective by contextualizing them in long-term institutional transformations of what may be called the institutional core of ...
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Shimon Shetreet | 87 |
Christian Walter | 165 |
Hans Michael Heinig | 181 |
Dagmar Richter | 198 |
Jochen A Frowein | 243 |
Barak Medina | 299 |
Michael Karayanni | 333 |
Ruth Gavison | 378 |
Ofra G Golan | 415 |
Mark S Weiner | 437 |
Edward J Eberle | 453 |