Faith in Courts

Lisa Harms is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Münster, Germany.

Introduction: Transnationalisation, Judicialisation and the Regulation of Religion
From the National to the Transnational Regulation of Religion
Religious Freedom Advocacy in a Transnational Legal Field
Trajectories of Legal Mobilisation: Empirical Observations
Contributions
Chapter Outline

1. Fielding Religious Freedom Advocacy: A Sociological Approach to Transnational Legal Mobilisation
Social Movements and Legal Mobilisation
A Shift of Perspective: Mobilisation in (Transnational) Legal Fields
Methods and Data

2. Enacting the Liberal Script: Religious Transatlantic Networks and an Emerging Legal Field
From the Shadow of National Sovereignty to the Formation of a Transnational Legal Field
Jehovah’s Witnesses and Evangelicals: Early Pioneers of Religious Freedom Litigation
Enacting the Liberal Frame of Religious Freedom

3. Constituting Identities: Sikhs between Symbolic Gains and Legal Marginalisation
Diaspora Politics and Legal Mobilisation
‘Jurimetrics’ of the Challenger: Fitting the Legal Niche

4. The Orthodoxy of the Powerful: Christians Fighting against Change
Federating Symbolic Capital
Defending Incumbency
Inequalities and Symbolic Boundaries

5. Endogenous Change in the Transnational Field: Jehovah’s Witnesses, Muslims and Christians’ Recursive Mobilisation
Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Expansion of Religious Freedoms
Muslims between Repeat Failure and Growing Activism
Conservative Christians’ Pushback against Anti-Discrimination Norms

Conclusion: Faith in Rights or Right Faith?
Religious Freedom Mobilisation and the Governance of Religious
Diversity
Towards a Field-Theoretical Understanding of Legal Mobilisation?
Religious Freedom quo vadis? Current Developments and Future Research Perspectives