Routledge Handbook of Law and Religion

Silvio Ferrari is Professor of Canon Law at the University of Milan and Professor of Church-State Relations at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Professor Ferrari is Life Honorary President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies and is an Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion. He received the 2012 Distinguished Service Award from the International Center for Law and Religion Studies.

Introduction: The challenge of law and religion, Silvio Ferrari, Part 1: Interdisciplinary perspectives on law and religion 1. Law and religion in the Biblical canon, Michael Welker 2. Law and religion in the Western legal tradition, John Witte 3. Anthropological perspectives on law and religion, Martin Ramstedt 4. Sociology at the intersection between law and religion, Effie Fokas 5. The contribution of law to interdisciplinary conversations on law and religion, Peter W. Edge Part 2: Freedom of religion or belief as a human right: critical reflections 6. The impact of definitional issues on the right of freedom of religion and belief, Arif A. Jamal 7.International law and freedom of religion and belief: Origins, presupposition and structure of the protection framework, Pamela Slotte 8. Legal responses to religious diversity (or to cultural diversity?), Prakash Shah 9. Religious freedom as equality, Frederick Mark Gedicks 10. Religion and human rights: Deconstructing and navigating tensions, Eva Brems and Lourdes Peroni 11. Human rights within religions, Marco Ventura 12. Reframing the state in eradicating discrimination: Freedom of religion or belief and non-discrimination, Nazila Ghanea 13. Conscientious Objection, Javier Martínez Torrón 14. Constitutional models and the protection of religious freedom, John T.S. Madeley Part 3: Law, religion, state and society 15. Secular politico-legal regimes in religiously homogenous and diverse societies, Rajeev Bhargava 16. A religious revival in family law, Jane Mair 17. Law, religion and the school, Myriam Hunter-Henin 18. Law, religion and the workplace, Lucy Vickers 19. Law, religion and economics, Niels Kærgård 20. Religious bioethics and biolaw, Christian Byk Part 4. Controversial issues 21. Law, religion and gender, Ayelet Schachar 22. Law, Religion and Security, Nadirsyah Hosen 23.Curbs and turbans: Challenging (tur)bans, Hana M.A.E. van Ooijen 24. Limitations on religious freedom in Islam: Rethinking through the Maqasid?, Abdullah Saeed 25. Blasphemy, defamation of religion, religious hate speech, Jeroen Temperman 26. Proselytism, Tad Stahnke