Michel Rosenfeld, Susanna Mancini

Constitutional Secularism in an Age of Religious Revival

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Produktbeschreibung

Traditional models of constitutional secularism have struggled to accommodate the modern revival of religious politics. The concept has been criticised as empty or illegitimate, while political and legal struggles have contested its meaning. This book gathers leading experts to examine the scope and substance of constitutional secularism today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780199660384
• ISBN-10: 0199660387
• Artikelnr.: 39373949

Autorenporträt

Susanna Mancini is a Professor of Comparative Constitutional Law at the University of Bologna School of Law and an adjunct professor of international law at the SAIS Johns Hopkins University BC. She is a current visiting profesor at the Central European University (Budapest) and at the B.N. Cardozo School of Law (NYC). Michel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robbins Professor of Human Rights and director of the Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the co-editor-in-chief of International Journal of Consumer Law and the author or co-editor of numerous books, including Law, Justice, Democracy, and the Clash of Cultures: A Pluralist Account (2010) and most recently with Andras Sajo of the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Susanna Mancini and Michel Rosenfeld: Introduction
* Part I: Theoretical Perspectives on the Conflicts between Secularism
and Religion
* 2: Dieter Grimm: Conflicts Between General Laws and Religious Norms
* 3: Nadia Urbinati: The Context of Secularism: A Critical Appraisal of
the Post-Secular Argument
* 4: Karl-Heinz Ladeur: The Myth of the Neutral State and the
Individualization of Religion: The Relationship Between State and
Religion in the Face of Fundamentalism
* 5: Andras Sajo: Preliminaries to a Concept of Constitutional
Secularism
* 6: Michel Rosenfeld: Recasting Secularism as One Conception of the
Good Among Many in a Post-Secular Constitutional Polity
* Part II: Religion, Secularism and the Public Square
* 7: Susanna Mancini: The tempting of Europe, the political seduction
of the cross. A Schmittian reading of Christianity and Islam in
European constitutionalism
* 8: Pierre Birnbaum: On the Secularization of the Public Square: Jews
in France and in the United States
* 9: Michel Troper: Sovereignty and Laïcité
* 10: Lama Abu-Odeh: Egypt's New Constitution: the Islamist Difference
* 11: Ran Hirschl and Ayelet Shachar: The Constitutional Boundaries of
Religious Accommodation
* Part III: Religion, Secularism and Women's Equality
* 12: Patrick Weil: Headscarf v. Burqa: Two French bans with different
meanings
* 13: John Borneman: Veiling and Women's Intelligibility
* 14: Daphne Barak-Erez: Reproductive Rights in a Jewish and Democratic
State
* Part IV: Religious Perspectives and the Liberal State
* 15: Gustavo Zagrebelsky: One among many? The Catholic Church between
universalism and pluralism
* 16: Gidi Sapir and Daniel Statman: Religious Marriage in a Liberal
State
* 17: Andrew F. March: Are Secularism and Neutrality Attractive to
Religious Minorities? Islamic Discussions Of Western Secularism in
the 'Jurisprudence of Muslim Minorities' (Fiqh Al-Aqalliyyat)
Discourse
* Part V: The Confrontation between Secularism and Religion in Specific
Contexts: Education and Free Speech
* 18: Gila Stopler: The Ultra-Orthodox Community in Israel and the
Right to an Exclusively Religious Education
* 19: Robert Post: Religion and Freedom of Speech: Portraits of
Muhammad