Religion and law an introduction /
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
c2006.
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| Series: | Ashgate religion, culture & society series.
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Table of Contents:
- Thinking about law, thinking about religion
- Introducing law and religion
- Why is law important for religion?
- Why is religion important for law?
- What is law?
- The constitution
- Legislation
- Decisions of the superior courts
- Academic commentary and other secondary sources
- Soft law and law in practice
- What is religion?
- Approaching the literature
- Methodology
- Territorial scope
- Topic
- Readership
- Religious interests in international and domestic laws
- The idea of religious interests
- A taxonomy of religious interests
- Religious interests in international law
- International law
- The work of the United Nations
- Regional human rights documents : the ECHR
- Other regional human rights documents
- The limitations of international law
- Religious interests in generally applicable domestic guarantees
- The role of generally applicable guarantees of rights in constitutions
- United Kingdom
- New Zealand
- The United States
- Canada
- Australia
- South Africa
- Are generally applicable religious guarantees useful?
- The state and the individual
- The nature of the problems
- Disobeying generally applicable prohibitions
- Religious drug use in the US, England, and South Africa
- Refusing a positive duty to act
- Conscientious objection to military service under the ECHR
- Conscientious objection to taxation in the US
- Seeking protection for religious difference : improper proselytism under the European Convention on Human Rights
- The state and the religious organisation
- The nature of the problems
- Organisational involvement in the domestic constitution and international organisations
- Religious representation in the UK
- Organisational involvement in the international arena
- State involvement in the organisation : registration and recognition in Russia
- Organisational involvement in state initiatives : religious charities in the UK
- Claims against religious organizations : clergy issues
- Claims by clergy in the United Kingdom
- Claims for the misconduct of religious professionals in the United States
- Community rights : sacred places
- Sacred buildings in the United Kingdom
- Sacred places in the US : indigenous American religions and the US landscape
- International guarantees of religious interests
- Universal declaration of human rights
- International covenant on civil and political rights
- 1981 Declaration
- European Convention on Human Rights
- Introductions to particular jurisdictions
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Canada
- New Zealand
- South Africa
- Theoretical issues
- Defining religion
- Significance of law and religion to one another.