Religion and Equality

W. Cole Durham, Jr. is Susa Young Gates University Professor of Law and Founding Director of the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University, Utah, United States, and President of the International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, based in Milan, Italy. Donlu Thayer is Senior Editor at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University Law School and an Associate Editor and Case Note Editor of the Oxford Journal of Law and Religion.

Preface; Foreword: equality and diversity in conceptualizing freedom of religion or belief, Heiner Bielefeldt; Introduction: conscience and equality: negotiating emerging tensions, Russell Sandberg. Part I Religion and Anti-Discrimination Norms: The right to religion: an evaluation of the texts of the main binding international and european juridical instruments, Nicolae Dură; Freedom of religion: Strasbourg and Luxembourg compared, Mark Hill; State neutrality, religion, and the workplace in the recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights, María J. Valero Estarellas; Religious freedom, anti-discrimination, and minority rights in Brazil, Rodrigo Vitorino Souza Alves; Anti-discrimination legislation and regulation of employment decisions of religious schools in Australia, Greg Walsh. Part II Religion and Same-Sex Marriage: Same-sex marriage: exemptions for celebrants and religious freedom, Rex Ahdar; Marriages, civil unions, partnerships, and religion in South Africa after 1996, Pieter Coertzen; A fissure within the human rights system? Same-sex marriage claims and religious freedom of speech, Ursula Cristina Basset; A ‘bare… purpose to harm’? Marriage and Catholic conscience, Helen M. Alvaré; Protecting same-sex marriage and religious liberty, Thomas Berg and Douglas Laycock. Conclusion: religion and equality: reconcilable differences, W. Cole Durham, Jr.; Index.