Religious Rules, State Law, and Normative Pluralism - A Comparative Overview
Editors: Bottoni, Rossella, Cristofori, Rinaldo, Ferrari, Silvio (Eds.)
Free Preview- Examines this important aspect of societal values from both an international and theoretical framework
- Tackles the issue of religious pluralism from a non-legal perspective, offering a more useful description of this difficult concept
- Takes a comparative approach from Western and non-Western point of view
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This book is devoted to the study of the interplay between religious rules and State law. It explores how State recognition of religious rules can affect the degree of legal diversity that is available to citizens and why such recognition sometime results in more individual and collective freedom and sometime in a threat to equality of citizens before the law. The first part of the book contains a few contributions that place this discussion within the wider debate on legal pluralism. While State law and religious rules are two normative systems among many others, the specific characteristics of the latter are at the heart of tensions that emerge with increasing frequency in many countries. The second part is devoted to the analysis of about twenty national cases that provide an overview of the different tools and strategies that are employed to manage the relationship between State law and religious rules all over the world.
- Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Religious Rules and Legal Pluralism: An Introduction
Pages 1-25
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State Norms, Religious Norms, and Claims of Plural Normativity under Democratic Constitutions
Pages 29-43
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Anthropological Perspectives on the Normative and Institutional Recognition of Religion by the Law of the State
Pages 45-59
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Legal Pluralism: Freedom of Religion, Exemptions and the Equality of Citizens
Pages 61-73
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Religious Rules Under Austrian State Law
Pages 77-90
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Religious Rules, State Law, and Normative Pluralism - A Comparative Overview
- Editors
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- Rossella Bottoni
- Rinaldo Cristofori
- Silvio Ferrari
- Series Title
- Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
- Series Volume
- 18
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-28335-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-28335-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-28333-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-80328-9
- Series ISSN
- 2214-6881
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 420
- Topics