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Religion in the public square : perspectives on secularism /

What is the place of religion and religious convictions in government, politics, and in public life - taking into consideration the need to respect the free exercise of religion? Challenges to existing arrangements of church-state affairs come from many corners of domestic debates and international...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Uitz, Renáta (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: The Hague : Eleven International Publishing, [2015]
Colección:Issues in constitutional law.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • COVER; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; 1. ROADS TO CONSTITUTIONAL SECULARISM: The Foundations of a Political-Legal Concept ; 1.1 HISTORICAL COMPLEXITY AND THE DIMENSIONS OF SECULARITY; 1.2 THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS POWER; 1.3 CONSTITUTIONAL SECULARISM; 1.4 THE CASE FOR A LIBERAL APPROACH; 1.5 RELIGION AND THE ETHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE MODERN STATE; 2. RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AS A CHALLENGE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATE; 2.1 INTRODUCTION: THE REEMERGENCE OF RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE; 2.2 MODERNITY
  • RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
  • ISLAM; 2.3 CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM AS CULTURE.
  • 2.4 RELIGION, THE DIFFERENTIATION OF THE "INDIVIDUAL OF SOCIETY" AND ISLAM2.5 THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE "INDIVIDUAL OF SOCIETY" IN THE POST-MODERN ERA; 2.6 RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AS A SYMPTOM OF UNBEHAGEN IN DER KULTUR; 2.7 CONCLUSION: IGNORANCE OF ONE'S OWN CULTURE AS AN IMPEDIMENT TO UNDERSTANDING THE OTHER; 3. THE ISLAMIST SHARI'ATIZATION OF POLITY AND SOCIETY: A Source of Intercivilizational Conflict?; 3.1 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS; 3.2 WHY IS THE RETURN OF SHARI'A LAW TO PUBLIC SPACE A CHALLENGE?; 3.3 SHARI'A LAW IN AN INVENTION OF TRADITION; 3.4 THE HYPOTHESIS AND THE STATE OF THE ART.
  • 3.5 tensions: legal universality containing the shari'atization of constitutionalism and international law3.6 is a reform in islamic shari'a law a viable prospect?; 3.7 conclusions: shari'a-islam is not a democratic constitutionalism; 4. how "reasonable" is accommodation?; 4.1 a three-dimensional question; 4.2 the example of the hijab; 4.3 religion in the sphere of the state: europe and the united states. justice scalia's position; 4.4 religious minorities and reasonable accommodation; 4.5 public and private reason; 4.6 the modeling of the public sphere on religious demands.
  • 4.7 RELIGION AS A "DISABILITY"4.8 REASONABLE COMPROMISE OR THE (RE)COLONIZATION OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE?; 5. BETWEEN AGGRESSION AND ACCEPTANCE: Law, Tolerance, and Religion in Europe; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 TOLERATION AS A MORALIZING ATTITUDE; 5.3 THE LIMITS OF MORALIZING ATTITUDES: LAUTSI AS AN ILLUSTRATION; 5.4 A FRESH START: TOLERANCE DISTINGUISHED FROM TOLERATION; 5.5 TOLERANCE AS A NON-MORALIZING APPROACH; 5.6 KNOWLEDGE OF FEAR; 5.7 LAW AND TOLERANCE (LAUTSI AGAIN); 5.8 CONCLUSIONS.
  • 6. SECULARISM IN A DIVERSIFYING RELIGIOUS ENVIRONMENT: The Changing Relationship between State and Religion in Europe6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 PRIVILEGE AND RECOGNITION IN A SECULAR CONTEXT; 6.3 GRAY AREAS: CULTURAL UNDERSTANDINGS AND THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN DE JURE AND FACTO STATUS; 6.4 GRAY AREAS IN A CONTEXT OF INCREASING DIVERSITY: CHALLENGES TO THE ESTABLISHED PATTERN; 6.5 LEVELING UP AND LEVELING DOWN; 6.6 CLARIFICATION OF MEANING: RELIGION AS CULTURE V. RELIGION AS TRUTH; 6.7 CULTURE/TRUTH DISTINCTION AS A EUROPEAN NORM; 6.8 CONCLUSION.