Religion in Public Spaces

A European Perspective
Herausgeber: Ferrari, Silvio; Pastorelli, Sabrina

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely volume discusses the much debated and controversial subject of the presence of religion in the public sphere. The book is divided in three sections. In the first the public/private distinction is studied mainly from a theoretical point of view, through the contributions of lawyers, philosophers and sociologists. In the following sections their proposals are tested through the analysis of two case studies, religious dress codes and places of worship. These sections include discussions on some of the most controversial recent cases from around Europe with contributions from some of the leading experts in the area of law and religion. Covering a range of very different European countries including Turkey, the UK, Italy and Bulgaria, the book uses comparative case studies to illustrate how practice varies significantly even within Europe. It reveals how familiarization with religious and philosophical diversity in Europe should lead to the modification of legal frameworks historically designed to accommodate majority religions. This in turn should give rise to recognition of new groups and communities and eventually, a more adequate response to the plurality of religions and beliefs in European society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 780g
• ISBN-13: 9781409450580
• ISBN-10: 1409450589
• Artikelnr.: 42358771

Autorenporträt

Silvio Ferrari is Professor of Canon Law, University of Milan and President, International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, Italy. His research interests are in the areas of Church and State in Europe; Comparative law of religions, and Vatican-Israel relations. He has published widely on these and related areas. Sabrina Pastorelli is research fellow at the Institute of International Law - section of Ecclesiastical and Canon Law - University of Milan, Faculty of Law. She is also a member of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL-CNRS/ÿcole Pratique des Hautes ÿtudes-Sorbonne) and teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Paris - Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences. Her research interests include sociology of religion; new religious movements; law and religion in Europe; religious education; regulation of religious pluralism; state public policy and religion. She is a member of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR); the Association for Sociology of Religion (ASR); the Italian Sociological Association (AIS).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Religion and Rethinking the Public-Private Divide
I: Religions and the Public/Private Divide
2: Public and Private, a Moving Border
3: Socio-Historical Perspectives on the Public and the Private Spheres 1
4: The 'Public-Private' Divide on Drift
5: Religious Freedom and the Public-Private Divide
6: The 'Public' and the 'Private' in the Common Law and Civil Law Traditions and the Regulation of Religion
7: Contested Normative Cultures
8: Religion in the European Public Spaces
II: Religion and the Dress Codes
9: From Front-Office to Back-Office
10: Religious Dress Codes
11: Religious Dress Codes in the United Kingdom
12: Religious Dress Codes
13: Religious Dress Codes
14: Comparing Burqa Debates in Europe
III: Religion and the Places of Worship
15: The Right to Establish and Maintain Places of Worship
16: The Places of Worship in France and the Public/Private Divide
17: 'Stopp Minarett'? The Controversy over the Building of Minarets in Switzerland
18: Places of Worship